KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Alvaro Enrigue Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Alvaro Enrigue

Showing 21-24 of 24 Quotes by Alvaro Enrigue

'Flaubert's Parrot' is an amphibious book in which what appears to be a personal essay about Flaubertian writing is gradually, delicately transformed into an extremely sad novel in which the differences between character, author, and narrator are less clear than they appear at first glance.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: About Appear Appears Author Between Book Character Clear Differences Essay Extremely First Glance Gradually Less Narrator Novel Parrot Personal Sad Than Transformed Which Writing

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In 'Dublinesque', Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas inverts the terms of Joyce's 'Ulysses' and tells the story of a man who, after living a hyperkinetic life like those of Odysseus and Leopold Bloom, resolves to never leave his room again and to reduce his mental activity to a minimum.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Activity After Again Bloom His Joyce Leave Life Like Living Man Mental Minimum Never Reduce Room Spanish Story Tells Terms Those Ulysses Who Writer

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The well-known inspiration for 'Ulysses' is made clear by the title itself: Joyce's novel is based on Homer's 'Odyssey', under the ever-fascinating premise that all of Odysseus' extraordinary adventures can be experienced by a modern man in a single day, provided that the writing consists of his mental activity.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Activity Adventures Based Clear Consists Day Experienced Extraordinary His Homer Inspiration Itself Joyce Made Man Mental Modern Modern Man Novel Odyssey Premise Provided Single Single Day Title Ulysses Well-Known Writing

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In 'Where the Air is Clear', Carlos Fuentes composed a polyphonic portrait of Mexico City amid the growth and modernization brought on by the economic boom of the 1950s. The novel can be read as a jazz interpretation - free and in a Mexican key - of John Dos Passos' 'Manhattan Transfer'.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Air Boom Brought City Clear Composed Economic Free Growth Interpretation Jazz John Key Manhattan Mexican Mexico Modernization Novel Portrait Read Transfer Where 1950S

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 6th, 1969

Links

Find Alvaro Enrigue on Amazon

Related Authors

Leo Buscaglia
Joseph Campbell
Frederick Douglass
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
Zig Ziglar

Popular Authors

Thomas Aquinas Richard Bach Jimi Hendrix Thomas Hobbes Dolores Huerta Walter Scott Jerry Seinfeld Charles Spurgeon

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1806 - Isambard K. Brunel

1821 - Charles Baudelaire

1865 - Adela Florence Nicolson

1872 - Leon Blum

1888 - Sol Hurok

1893 - Charles Simmons

1898 - Paul Robeson

1905 - J. William Fulbright

1906 - Victor Vasarely

1910 - Abraham A. Ribicoff

Birthdays on April 9th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Car Experience Home Movies Politics Power Respect Veterans Day