Eugene Ostashevsky
Autor de OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism
Obras de Eugene Ostashevsky
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THE PIRATE... might perhaps be best described as a picaresque poem. But you could also call it a one-book deserted island (but wait, is it deserted if there is a pirate and a parrot, and the reader to boot? -- a philosophical question central to the enterprise of piracy!). Then again, you might call it a galley, rigged with pirated lines and parroted puns. The knowledge of Russian, a smattering of French, a handle on sums and square roots, familiarity with Kant and Wittgenstein (and other -steins & their contents), a passing acquaintance with language philosophy (or perhaps language psittosophy) might be enlightening to the reader, although they are neither prerequisite nor precisely proportional to the quantity of laughter the reader will take away as his or her loot. (Although the ability to sense humor is sine qua non.)… (más)