410 What Is American Literature? (with Ilan Stavans)
The History of Literature
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The Insebis, a Reading of a Thousand Years of Solitude
Wyatt: I was mesmerized by the capacity of an author to become a godlike creature who could invent a world with such magic. Wy, do you remember what it was about 100 years of solitude that struck you so strongly? It seemed to me that that book, which i read in i think, 18 hours straight, without sleep, is without hardly eating anything. That reading of a hundred years of solitude was unimpeded by anything. And in that it was pure, and it was supreme. Do you think youre able to recreate that magic of just being a pure reader? I long for that magic. On occasion, that magic comes back, though seldom with a new
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