http://trueslant.com/marceloballve/2009/08/18/the-mexican-novelist-and-the-strange-prosthesis/ [Please go to 'Settings' to change your Tagline] Tue, 04 Sep 2012 21:30:00 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://trueslant.com/marceloballve/2009/08/18/the-mexican-novelist-and-the-strange-prosthesis/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Marcelo Ballve - South Meridian – Where have all the axolotls gone? - True/Slant Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:28:34 +0000 http://trueslant.com/marceloballve/?p=398#comment-79 [...] day after writing this post, I read Beauty Salon, a novella by Peruvian-Mexican author Mario Bellatin, just translated into English. I was surprised, midway through the book, to come across the axolotl [...] [...] day after writing this post, I read Beauty Salon, a novella by Peruvian-Mexican author Mario Bellatin, just translated into English. I was surprised, midway through the book, to come across the axolotl [...]

]]> http://trueslant.com/marceloballve/2009/08/18/the-mexican-novelist-and-the-strange-prosthesis/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Nick Obourn Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:29:08 +0000 http://trueslant.com/marceloballve/?p=398#comment-74 I love it. I'll look into him more. He's like a Dadaist performance artist/novelist. Thanks for writing about him. I love it. I’ll look into him more. He’s like a Dadaist performance artist/novelist. Thanks for writing about him.

]]> http://trueslant.com/marceloballve/2009/08/18/the-mexican-novelist-and-the-strange-prosthesis/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Marcelo Ballve Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:34:56 +0000 http://trueslant.com/marceloballve/?p=398#comment-73 I'm not sure about his motives. But he has been clear about his belief in provocative performance as a sort of ancillary support to his written work. For example, he once organized a literary panel in France, to which he brought body doubles of prominent Mexican novelists, their "clones," to discuss literature. At once reading, he cited a made-up, large-nosed Japanese novelist as a major influence on his work, and didn't disabuse the audience of their belief that this novelist actually existed. Later, he wrote a novel about this fictional writer. I’m not sure about his motives. But he has been clear about his belief in provocative performance as a sort of ancillary support to his written work. For example, he once organized a literary panel in France, to which he brought body doubles of prominent Mexican novelists, their “clones,” to discuss literature. At once reading, he cited a made-up, large-nosed Japanese novelist as a major influence on his work, and didn’t disabuse the audience of their belief that this novelist actually existed. Later, he wrote a novel about this fictional writer.

]]> http://trueslant.com/marceloballve/2009/08/18/the-mexican-novelist-and-the-strange-prosthesis/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Nick Obourn Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:08:30 +0000 http://trueslant.com/marceloballve/?p=398#comment-72 More frightening than him wearing the prosthesis is where that prosthesis might have been. Was he making some sort of political statement or just being incendiary? I have never read his work. More frightening than him wearing the prosthesis is where that prosthesis might have been. Was he making some sort of political statement or just being incendiary? I have never read his work.

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