tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817560476597166820.post2414764696354731885..comments2017-08-17T13:58:39.661+10:00Comments on Messengers Booker (and more): Dublinesque - Enrique Vila-Matas Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013 - Best Translated Book Award 2013Messy_Tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05793938555354522246noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817560476597166820.post-44975346394929442572013-05-07T20:33:38.656+10:002013-05-07T20:33:38.656+10:00Yes, I was very happy when I heard about the cover...Yes, I was very happy when I heard about the cover :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07546287562521628467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817560476597166820.post-32144747741848246922013-05-07T10:35:32.853+10:002013-05-07T10:35:32.853+10:00Thanks Tony - your review is brilliant, a man in a...Thanks Tony - your review is brilliant, a man in a blue jacket is that you? Maybe through your ongoing work have stopped "the decline of the literary blogger". Thanks to your many readers I've now discovered, from your comments, that the cover is an intertextual reference - brilliant.Messy_Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05793938555354522246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817560476597166820.post-48841199486445479212013-05-06T21:02:52.861+10:002013-05-06T21:02:52.861+10:00Yep, a great book, and I sincerely hope this one t...Yep, a great book, and I sincerely hope this one takes out the prize (especially as the judges omitted to put its only real rival on the shortlist). As I said on Twitter, I couldn't even come up with a decent review of this one, so it all went a bit parody shaped instead :0<br /><br />http://tonysreadinglist.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/big-time-intertextuality.htmlAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07546287562521628467noreply@blogger.com