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there is a case to be made that this is just what happened: a host of writers about whom Bolaño had said nice things in print—César Aira.Bolaño turned such a style to his advantage; in a literary field increas­ingly defined by well-publicized international prizes.

I expressed skepticism: Did anyone remember that mar­keting campaign? Was Kerouac selling well? My interlocutor was losing patience.A few lines in Esposi­tos essay hinted at the emotional and political energies swirling around this crisis of taste.The book showed Bolaño to have been a searching reader of a large swath of world literature (page through it and youll find discussions of Baudelaire.

of letting an interpreta­tion of this novelists work be captive to the stupidest things some Americans had said about it.That the Bolaño craze might result in increased interest in hispanophone writers among English readers was rarely mentioned as a possibility.

Whence this eagerness to ridicule a fairly unremarkable sense of regret for the loss of a figure you admire? Why the desire to see literary appreciation under the most contemptible aspect? Rarely had the principle of de gusti­bus non est disputandum felt so disputable; rarely had the space for liking something felt so besieged by a worry over what that liking might say about you.

It was difficult not to feel that the pan-Latin whateverness of Garners review expressed a particular condescension to Spanish-language writing—hard to imagine the Times recommending Manischewitz to accompany your Roth.One of the most prominent new gameplay elements in Conviction is touted Mark and Execute.

Ubisoft claims that Splinter Cell: Conviction has been built using their own game engine called LEAD.he could distract one guard by shooting out a light in his vicinity and then take out another guard.

but developers struggled to have something solid out in time.The good news for us and for PC gamers is that one week after release Ubisoft released a patch that fixed many of these glaring issues.