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I was quite pleased with his newest short story collection, The Things We Don'T Do. I had given up on his Traveller of the Century which I had found dense and slow.
I especially liked the title story, a recollection on Borges and a neat tale, My False Name, filled with irony and humor. here is my brief review:
The Things We Don't Do by Andrés Neuman
Couples unable to connect, these stories define the distances between people, the gulfs we cannot bridge.
Yet Neuman also appears to celebrate these differences, these gaps, as if to say: we are forever separate, forever seeking to be different than who we truly are.
The panic and fear we feel when we realize we are alone, we will never bond with another person, despite how much we might love and desire one another, we never truly bond.
In any marriage there are secrets we do not share. Most are trivial in nature yet the very act of not sharing is a most profound one.
"The Things We Don't Do" reveals the fantasies we revel in. The life unlived we imagine as an ideal, where everything is perfect bliss, where we end up a hero or heroine, forever applauded and fulfilled.
In another story Neuman whimsically depicts scene long ago when Borges gives a lecture to his admirers. Neuman intuits what Borges felt in that moment and how those who were to listen also felt.
I found this volume , compact, easy to digest and a much more amenable way to experience the quirky imaginative perspectives of Andres Neuman.
I especially liked the title story, a recollection on Borges and a neat tale, My False Name, filled with irony and humor. here is my brief review:
The Things We Don't Do by Andrés Neuman
Couples unable to connect, these stories define the distances between people, the gulfs we cannot bridge.
Yet Neuman also appears to celebrate these differences, these gaps, as if to say: we are forever separate, forever seeking to be different than who we truly are.
The panic and fear we feel when we realize we are alone, we will never bond with another person, despite how much we might love and desire one another, we never truly bond.
In any marriage there are secrets we do not share. Most are trivial in nature yet the very act of not sharing is a most profound one.
"The Things We Don't Do" reveals the fantasies we revel in. The life unlived we imagine as an ideal, where everything is perfect bliss, where we end up a hero or heroine, forever applauded and fulfilled.
In another story Neuman whimsically depicts scene long ago when Borges gives a lecture to his admirers. Neuman intuits what Borges felt in that moment and how those who were to listen also felt.
I found this volume , compact, easy to digest and a much more amenable way to experience the quirky imaginative perspectives of Andres Neuman.
