Bookless Pete | The Invention of Morel by Adolpho Bioy Casares. #booktube @BooklessPete | Uploaded March 2024 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
In the video I explain why I read it at LEAST 30 times...so far. Rants don't begin until halfway through the video.
CORRECTIONS: Bioy was married to writer Silvina Ocampo. Silvina's sister was founder of Sur, the noted Buenos Aires literary review: her name was Victoria Ocampo, NOT whatever I said.
Mentioned:
@CriminOllyBlog "Why you shouldn't reread books you love." youtube.com/watch?v=muwQ6ZVPhSw&t=1s
More info on foreign language acquisition through immersion aka "comprehensible input" aka "input method here:
dreamingspanish.com/method
@FingtamLanguages youtube.com/watch?v=CwjkqUBztiM&t=2s
@daysandwords youtube.com/watch?v=Jl2qJxZOxBc
Books
The Invention of Morel by Adolpho Bioy Casares
Chronicle of Bustos Domeq By Casares and Jorge Luis Borges
The Book of Fantasy, edited (NOT written by, I misspoke in the video)
by Borges, Casares, and Silvina Ocampo.
Other works by Borges:
Stories:
"Funes, the Memorious"
"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"
Books:
Labyrinths
Ficciones
The Book of Sand
Dr. Brodie's Report
The latter two are available from used booksellers in Norman Thomas di Giovanni translations:
abebooks.com/9780525475415/Doctor-Brodies-Report-Borges-Jorge-0525475419/plp?cm_sp=plped-_-4-_-image
abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=9780525069928&n=100121503&cm_sp=plped-_-1-_-used
Also mentioned:
Morel audiobook narrator Andrés Neumann (who is also an accomplished writer in his own right.)
Shōgun by James Clavell
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Beginning in 1962 with The Hunter, Donald Westlake wrote 28 hard-boiled novels under the pen name Richard Stark: 24 about stoic, relentless one-named thief Parker, and 4 lighter books about some-time Parker criminal associate Alan Grofield.
Silent screen legend Louise Brooks.
Alain Robbe-Grillet novelist and screenwriter of Alain Resnais' film: Last Year at Marienbad (1961, France)
Sur (1931-1992) Literary review founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Victoria Ocampo.
I've decided not to do Amazon links anymore. You probably know where to get books. bookshop.org is a good online site to order physical books and support independent bookstores at the same time.
As always, find free public domain ebooks at gutenberg.org https://gutenberg.net.au/ gutenberg.ca/index.html or many other sites:
epubor.com/best-sites-for-public-domain-books.html
Please consider subscribing to my channel if you haven't yet:
youtube.com/channel/UCmx45nmZP5XhjL0CD6jEN1Q?sub_confirmation=1
In the video I explain why I read it at LEAST 30 times...so far. Rants don't begin until halfway through the video.
CORRECTIONS: Bioy was married to writer Silvina Ocampo. Silvina's sister was founder of Sur, the noted Buenos Aires literary review: her name was Victoria Ocampo, NOT whatever I said.
Mentioned:
@CriminOllyBlog "Why you shouldn't reread books you love." youtube.com/watch?v=muwQ6ZVPhSw&t=1s
More info on foreign language acquisition through immersion aka "comprehensible input" aka "input method here:
dreamingspanish.com/method
@FingtamLanguages youtube.com/watch?v=CwjkqUBztiM&t=2s
@daysandwords youtube.com/watch?v=Jl2qJxZOxBc
Books
The Invention of Morel by Adolpho Bioy Casares
Chronicle of Bustos Domeq By Casares and Jorge Luis Borges
The Book of Fantasy, edited (NOT written by, I misspoke in the video)
by Borges, Casares, and Silvina Ocampo.
Other works by Borges:
Stories:
"Funes, the Memorious"
"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"
Books:
Labyrinths
Ficciones
The Book of Sand
Dr. Brodie's Report
The latter two are available from used booksellers in Norman Thomas di Giovanni translations:
abebooks.com/9780525475415/Doctor-Brodies-Report-Borges-Jorge-0525475419/plp?cm_sp=plped-_-4-_-image
abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=9780525069928&n=100121503&cm_sp=plped-_-1-_-used
Also mentioned:
Morel audiobook narrator Andrés Neumann (who is also an accomplished writer in his own right.)
Shōgun by James Clavell
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Beginning in 1962 with The Hunter, Donald Westlake wrote 28 hard-boiled novels under the pen name Richard Stark: 24 about stoic, relentless one-named thief Parker, and 4 lighter books about some-time Parker criminal associate Alan Grofield.
Silent screen legend Louise Brooks.
Alain Robbe-Grillet novelist and screenwriter of Alain Resnais' film: Last Year at Marienbad (1961, France)
Sur (1931-1992) Literary review founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Victoria Ocampo.
I've decided not to do Amazon links anymore. You probably know where to get books. bookshop.org is a good online site to order physical books and support independent bookstores at the same time.
As always, find free public domain ebooks at gutenberg.org https://gutenberg.net.au/ gutenberg.ca/index.html or many other sites:
epubor.com/best-sites-for-public-domain-books.html
Please consider subscribing to my channel if you haven't yet:
youtube.com/channel/UCmx45nmZP5XhjL0CD6jEN1Q?sub_confirmation=1
