Álvaro Enrigue: Sudden Death

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Álvaro Enrigue's Sudden Death is the wild tale of a tennis match between the poet Francisco de Quevedo and the artist Caravaggio that transcends time and involves other historically transformative, and often combative, figures. Enrigue, who calls his impulse to write "visceral and erratic," was angered into starting this book by the 2008 financial crisis.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:05.0	Boots!
0:07.0	Where would we be without boos?
0:12.0	Where would we be without good?
0:15.0	No, into the bird.
0:17.0	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:20.0	But where would we need without books?
0:22.6	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.
0:30.6	I have to tell you that my guest today, Alvaro Enrique, has written a book of a sort that I've never read before.
0:40.5	You know, the show has been on for 30 years, so to find a book whose construction is thoroughly surprising and delightful to me is a great pleasure.
0:56.1	This book is called Sudden Death.
0:58.6	It's published by Riverhead Books.
1:01.7	It's recently come out in paperback.
1:06.1	Alvaro is a Mexican writer living now in New York.
1:12.9	Thank you for having me in your program, by the way.
1:15.2	It's a great pleasure.
1:16.9	The book
1:17.8	wants to look to the past
1:21.4	for information
1:23.7	about the present.
1:26.6	And like an eccentric, the author of the book, who I'm not assuming is you,
1:35.3	but the person who assembled this book, is interested in the history of tennis.
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