Wednesday, June 22, 2005
nounspace
Zipping through streets I realized that narratives are post-geographic and we forget. China's in-the-now modernist, Mian Mian's novel, Candy--when you squint--looks similar in scope to Mexico's beloved media darling Xavier Velasco's 2003's Alfaguara winning book, Diablo Guardian. Not to get too Ivy League on LSD(eleuze) here, but although geography is important to both narratives they connect in the abstract thematic space of the novel itself: two young female characters experiencing the world through drugs, outdated rock music and tropes involving rebellion and coming of age. And that seems more interesting.
Neato.
