5/20/2023 0 Comments Son of a trickster goodreads![]() ![]() the language, it seems to me, is the one rigorous thing that holds everything together supple tendons superglue. and, on a more technical level, seemingly (but in fact not) messy timelines and storylines. this precision in the language is juxtaposed to a whole lot of mess - messy lives, messy hygiene, messy love, messy gastroenterology (lots of bad eating, not eating, and bad drinking, and TONS of throwing up). from the first page what struck me about it is how perfect it is, how precise, how carefully built, sentence by little sentence, with that effortlessness that is always the product of painstaking labor. it took Eden Robinson eight years to write Son of a Trickster and it shows. ![]() and sure, there are Carol Shields and Michael Ondaatje, but here is the catch: i bet that a good number of those who have heard of them do not know that they are canadian. Miriam Toews - i haven't dug into numbers, but this is what it seems to me - is more popular in italy than she is south of the border. even nobel prize winner Alice Munro is not a household name among american readers. ![]() the only titan strong enough to have made a breach (but, see, it's her breach, no one but she can cross over, just like in kafka’s parable!) is Margaret Atwood. There is a chinese wall between american readers and canadian literature. ![]()
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