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Obligatory joke: I hope Burt Reynolds doesn’t crack up laughing while delivering his eulogy.
(Sorry about the headline; Cannonball Run was actually one of my least fave of his roles. I never knew that his character in Blazing Saddles — “Don’t be surprised, you’re doing the French Mistake! Voila!” — was named Buddy Bizarre. Which is now my screen name on MSN, replacing MANCHOVY!)
In honor of “Drink Corona (or whatever Mexican beer you choose) Day,” I thought I’d go find some well-regarded Mexican authors whom I’ve never read a word of. Only having thought up this idea this morning, I decided to dive into the “canonical appendixes” of Harold Bloom’s Western Canon
Except for Latin America, which is lumped together. So I had to spend a few minutes checking out the nationality of all the authors he listed, only to discover that he only has two Mexican authors on his list and I’ve actually read a book by one of them (Aura
Bloom’s list did manage to yield a Mexican 0-fer author for me: Octavio Paz.
For the sake of bulking up this post, here’s the full list of Bloom’s canonical authors of Latin America (in the sequence he lists them), with 0-fer annotations:
, but didn’t get far.
and some short storiesLooks like Bloom really digs Cuban writers, huh? Now go get messed up on Tecate!