{"id":452,"date":"2009-01-28T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/01\/28\/meta-meta-meta\/"},"modified":"2009-01-28T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T16:14:00","slug":"meta-meta-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/01\/28\/meta-meta-meta\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta, Meta, Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/bolano-2-500-774363.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;float: right;cursor: pointer;width: 217px;height: 320px\" src=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/bolano-2-500-774361.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>This has nothing to do with the North Country, so feel free to move on.  This is about the literary strategy of meta-narratives and blurring the line between fact and fiction in literature.  Miguel de <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Don_Quixote\">Cervantes was an early perpetrator of this<\/a> &#8211; and the modern novel &#8211; with .  I love this literary device &#8211; it&#8217;s Escher-like, collapsing on itself, making your reader&#8217;s mind cycle in endless loops trying to find the answer to a puzzle that has no answer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/28\/books\/28bola.html?scp=2&amp;sq=bolano&amp;st=cse\">A controversy is emerging<\/a> about the Chilean\/Mexican writer Roberto Bolano, who has become one of the most celebrated &#8220;new&#8221; authors in the last few years.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roberto_Bola%C3%B1o\">Much of his fame came after his death in 2003.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bolano&#8217;s characters are often searching for lost authors (including his own alter-ego), mysteriously disappeared writers, and the truths that they reveal.  What&#8217;s so cool about the brew ha-ha, as reported in the New York Times, is that real-life literary critics are searching for truths about the real-life Bolano, much as his characters do in his novels.  I imagine Bolano would be extremely psyched about this turn of events.  Maybe he even planned it.<\/p>\n<p>Bolano is an amazing read.  Try <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roberto_Bola%C3%B1o#Distant_Star\">Distant Star<\/a><\/i> for starters.  <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Savage_Detectives\">The Savage Detectives<\/a><\/i> was considered his magnum opus, that is until <i>2666<\/i> came out last year, whcih I can&#8217;t wait to read.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has nothing to do with the North Country, so feel free to move on. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}