[durasell]

LOL!

I think you have to be born an American and not have your wife do the translations into english to be in Melville’s class.

In all seriousness, McCarthy is good. It break my heart that hacks like the Coen Bros. are doing one of his books.

[Borges]

At their best the Coens are as good as American filmmaking gets. Have seen this film? It’s a return to form for them.

[Borges]

BTW who’s wife translated what into English? VN’s Russian novels were translated either by him or him in collaboration with his son. His post 1938 novels were written in English by him.