The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Andrés Neuman's Talking to Ourselves, published by Pushkin Press in the UK and due out shortly from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the US.
Neuman is a fine writer, but my enthusiasm for his work is nowhere near the popular consensus -- he's seems to be widely seen as one of South America's new greats. I was decidedly underwhelmed by the near-universally acclaimed Traveler of the Century -- and I take some comfort in the fact that there still doesn't seem to be a German translation: for anyone who has read a lot of nineteenth century German fiction, it just doesn't impress that much.
Neuman is a fine writer, but my enthusiasm for his work is nowhere near the popular consensus -- he's seems to be widely seen as one of South America's new greats. I was decidedly underwhelmed by the near-universally acclaimed Traveler of the Century -- and I take some comfort in the fact that there still doesn't seem to be a German translation: for anyone who has read a lot of nineteenth century German fiction, it just doesn't impress that much.