Ann Quin and...

Lolz I just recalled from Oystein's library anecdote that I did get my library to buy a copy of Passages, but I read it in a morning and then forgot all about posting on this thread. Its hard to say much about it now however I enjoyed the desolate mood.

Need to re-read but who knows when..

Post those reviews!

Just started reading Berg after getting all her books for Christmas (no, I had never read any before asking for every book she wrote, but I'm a Johnson stan [in fact I think I'm now actually allowed to call myself a Johnson scholar, haha], so hey, it's got to be at least interesting to me). Very good so far, though it seems trapped in the Woolfian mode a little - free indirect discourse rather than the full-on stream-of-consciousness and metatextuality that Johnson managed to deliver so well. Also chock-full of Freudian motifs that perhaps (only perhaps) seem overplayed now... but also interesting Sartrean aspects on free will and determinism... Hmm.

pleased to see that one of the great british experimental novels is getting reissued this month:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/I-Hear-Voices-Paul-Ableman/dp/0571259049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262708320&sr=1-1

I think Sorrentino provided Selby with encouragement to write - it kind of surprises me that they even knew each other.
I think those guys actually grew up together or went to high school together.

Anyway I bought some of her books when Dalkey Archive first put them out, but never got around to reading them.

Which is the kind of thing I post so much on this board, there might as well be an emoticon for it.

Or an acronym, like: ba;dr.

WHATTA YAMEAN THE SAUCES NO GOOD? THATS WHAT I SAID, THE SAUCES NO GOOD. WHATS THE MATTER, YA DONT UNDERSTAND ENGLISH? ITS NO GOOD. NO GOOD. NO GOOD. WHATTA YAKNOW ABOUT SAUCE? MEEEE, WHATTA I KNOW? I KNOW IT STINKS. NOT ENOUGH GARLIC. ITS GOT THE SAME GARLIC. JUST LIKE ALWAYS. THE SAME 8 CLOVES OF GARLIC AND YA SAY NOT ENOUGH GARLIC. YUR A FUCKIN DUMMY. ITS GOOD SAUCE. DONT TELL ME ITS NO GOOD. WHOSE A FUCKIN DUMMY? EH? WHO? I'LL GIVEYA A RAP IN THE MOUT IM A DUMMY. YA CANT EVEN MAKE A SAUCE.

still one of my favourite paragraphs ever written. still haven't finished that book

I'd like to see the film after seeing an ed. of the book with a shot of it on the cover.

Just finished Berg. Pretty great.

More on this thread too:

a thread for b.s. johnson, christine brooke-rose, ann quin, alan burns,

This is a nice short appreciation of Berg:

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

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).