tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165118504093345923.post1327022758058506932..comments2023-03-22T03:46:05.342-07:00Comments on One Finger Typing: More on place in fictionSteve Masoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03387484207819808962noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165118504093345923.post-79141264621960038942011-09-25T19:41:49.111-07:002011-09-25T19:41:49.111-07:00Yes this is great! We were talking about novel tou...Yes this is great! We were talking about novel tourism and you sent this link ... This summer I read along as my mother went off to avoid her 80th bday party and instead went and traveled to Machu Pichu....I sent her there w one I had just read, the new one by my fav writer Ann Patchett, an imagined one about that region that I keep giving to people..really a perfect novel, and then she turned around a gave me "turn left at Machu Pichu", a non fiction piece that is again so richly descriptive Steve...the one before Israel trip that I visit w her now is the David Grossman novel , The End of the Land...can't wait to go visit those places ..she said it's the tip of the Nile ...kkarenganzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12175476310467933003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165118504093345923.post-65661330397886557472010-07-22T16:40:19.180-07:002010-07-22T16:40:19.180-07:00Very interesting post.
When I read places in fict...Very interesting post.<br /><br />When I read places in fictions, I don't usually connect it to the places, if I haven't been to. Some people do, for example, people tried hard to pin down Thomas Hardy's locales. My exception is Kafka's "The Castle" - the castle in Praha.<br /><br />When I read novels about distinct places I'd visited before, and particularly if the locations in the novels are very important, I usually pay great attention to the locations, and compare notes to my memories, for example: Bruges, Belgium -- "Bruges-la-Morte", "Le Carillonneur" and "The Folding Star"; Paris -- "L'invitée", many works by Balzac.<br /><br />Actually, there is a website dedicated to <a href="http://www.balzacsparis.ucr.edu/" rel="nofollow">Balzac's Paris</a><br /><br /><a href="http://matthewfelixsun.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Matthew Felix Sun</a>Matthew Felix Sunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03347154808262264374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165118504093345923.post-86732241076104017652010-07-19T15:07:27.388-07:002010-07-19T15:07:27.388-07:00Man, I miss Prague! Have I ever mentioned that I l...Man, I miss Prague! Have I ever mentioned that I lived in the Czech Republic for a couple of years in my 20s, most recently Prague for a year in '99 - 00? *sigh*Steven Longhttp://www.foesofreality.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165118504093345923.post-2421150105860246342010-07-19T13:48:59.187-07:002010-07-19T13:48:59.187-07:00Enjoyed this! Thanks for permission to reblog.Enjoyed this! Thanks for permission to reblog.Miriam Saganhttp://miriamswell.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com