Ξεκίνησα το The Polysyllabic Spree.
Έχω να πω πως ο Χόρνμπυ είναι θεός.
Δεν το περιμένατε.
Το Polysyllabic Spree είναι συλλογή από κειμενάκια που έγραφε (γράφει;) σε μια στήλη στο Believer (αμερικάνικο περιοδικό) για λογοτεχνία. Κάθε μήνα γράφει τι βιβλία αγόρασε και τι βιβλία διάβασε, και γενικά σχολιάζει περί ανέμων και υδάτων, ανάμεσα στο λογοτεχνικό μπλαμπλα. Πάντα θεός.
I do seem, however, to have spent a disproportionate amount of time reading about Stuyvensant High School this month. That's where Dylan Ebdus escapes to, and it's also where Frank Conroy went when he could be bothered. I'm guessing that Stuyvensant is decent enough, but I'm sure its students would be perplexed to hear that an Englishman spent an entire holiday in France reading about alumni both fictional and real. I even ended up checking out the Stuyvensant website, just to see what the place looked like. (It looked like a high school.)
This is a painful, brave, poetic and definitive book, and though it has its flaws, [...] the right reader will not only forgive them but love them - just as the right listener loves the flaws in, say, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle.
Zoe Heller's Notes on a Scandal [...] was moving along nicely until a character starts talking about football. He tells a teaching colleague that he's been to see Arsenal, and that "Arsenal won Liverpool 3-0". Readers of this column will have realised by now that I know almost nothing about anything, but if I were forced to declare an area of expertise, it would be what people say to each other after football matches. It's not much, I know, but it's mine. And I am positive that no one has ever said "Arsenal won Liverpool 3-0" in the entire history of either Arsenal Football Club or the English language. "Beat", "thrashed", "did" or "done", "trounced", "thumped", "shat all over", "walloped", etc, yes; "won", emphatically, no.
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