Ann Quin and...

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/book-of-a-lifetime-berg-by-ann-quin-2063012.html

thought i remembered he did something similar in the guardian &... who cares about ann quin?

anyone ever seen the movie btw?

I noticed when I was up over Christmas, that it was being shown on STV Glasgow. Didn't see it.

Film sounds like it would be terrible. I've already had to watch the excruciating adaptation of Christie Malry, I don't think I could stand to see Berg slaughtered.

Seems awfully familiar too, I must have seen it once, but you lose track of crap British made box office duds.

More from Ann Quin in 2018

But, um,...

Recently tried reading "Tiptricks" but I managed two pages and gave up.

And other stories are putting a collection of short stories and fragments by Quin

haven't read the new collection, but it's worth following the ann quin page on facebook. the account, which i think is run by carol burns (alan burns' ex wife), occasionally posts letters and other personal documents

For once I can say the words 'damn I wish I was on Facebook'.

https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/89124310_3053274391390439_5823242502458572800_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&_nc_sid=ca434c&_nc_ohc=mjQqR_3hsmwAX8WHPQf&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr8-1.xx&oh=16a432e0e53eca41eb670269ffc92829&oe=5E93B7C8

Whoa, awesome.

Yeah, saw that earlier

read "berg" recently, found it hard to get into at 1st - lot of sentences that i had to read 3 times & still didn't really know what they meant. persisted tho & overall i mostly liked it. this prompted me to check out christine brooke-rose (walk when the green man...uh shit i already forgot what it's called) but i couldn't hang w/ that at all...gave up. life's short!

read berg last year. it has the feel of a puzzle you have to solve, of something that could easily have been done slightly more explicitly and it'd have been a menacing, broadly funny caper, but the elusiveness was to a large degree the point, perhaps indicating a loss (or a scrambling) of cognition within the writing itself to mirror that of its protagonist. anyway yeah it was good

I enjoyed reviews of Claire-Louise Bennett and her story recently in The New Yorker, also see that she's talked about Quin as inspiration and wrote intro for republished Passages, mentioned in passing upthread---how is it?? I'm inclined to start there, given the Bennett connection.

Quin is a major intertext of Claire Louise Bennett's Checkout 19, which is highly recommended (by me).