David Naimon
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4,074 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 24 Aug
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We've hinted at this uh it just now, but the collapse of the marriage in this book isn't the only collapse in the book.
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If you were just to list the threats and obstacles in the book as a list, decontextualized of earthquake and volcanic eruption of Mount Etna, which is actually uh erupting quite f forcibly right now this week, of an impending storm.
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and dangerous winds, of a hurricane hitting her Mexican mother's house, of dementia of the refugee camps in Sicily, of the racist xenophobic signs on the island, Italy for Italians, a country whose leader right now from the radical right, who's Islamophobic and who has talked of naval blockades of immigrant ships.
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And yet the falling apart here compared to your last book feels also like a cracking open, an opening up.
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And I want to explore that with two questions from others.
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Counterintuitively, the first question isn't really actually about this at all.
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And it's not even really about this book.
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But in addition to answering it in its own right, as sort of a meaningful if digressive aside, I'd love for us to find a way to bring the kernel of this question into the book itself, into the questions of the book itself.
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Also, this question by necessity is in Spanish, so I will be enlisting you to translate in broad strokes what is asked before answering.
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This pregunta is from an author frequently mentioned when people guess who might win the Nobel Nobel Prize in Literature in any given year.
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A writer of classics such as Bartleby Co., Dublin esque, and Never Any End to Paris.
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Which chronicles his time living with Marguerite De Ross while working on his first novel, as well as the upcoming book to be published this fall in English by Yale University Press as Camera Obscura.
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So here's a question for you from the great border crosser and supreme genre defier, Enrique Villamatas.
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Gregor Kafka.
Well e either way.
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I mean humor is the super important part of your writing and it's not uh of the Kafka-esque type.
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It's not infused with horror necessarily, but it also feels sub like it's subversive with the potential of liberation.
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Like if we go back to the way the mother might be made to look foolish by the daughter, it's sort of an upturning of a hierarchy in a way.
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way that presents possibility, I think, which I don't feel the same in Kafka.
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