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Apple announced the EGS would get the green light in Europe on Friday.

This notion that the way to counteract American ignorance about Latin American literature would be to curb American enthusiasm for a major Latin American author was peculiar.and not just because in doing so one may have become a dupe of marketers or indulged in exoti­cizing projections.

This is the Bolaño we love to read… Our sweet hearts flutter at the thought of artists who ‘die too soon.always more disturbing than How can you dislike this? The quickest way out of this bad feeling is to imitate your naysayer: surrender your taste.regretted high-mindedly that when such a small percentage of books published in English is translated from other languages—3 percent is the commonly floated number.

the interpretive claims didnt always follow cleanly from the established facts: Who knows how many readers of The Savage Detectives bought the book because they saw the author photo? Who can say whether those readers wanted.in a wave of interest in Latin American literature that has been plausibly traced partly to Bolaños prominence.

You dont have to believe in the disinterested purity of the Artist to be struck by these critics faith in their demystifying logic: the suggestion is not just that most successful writers angle for success but that Bolaños big success was the result of his big skill as an angler.

Whence this eagerness to ridicule a fairly unremarkable sense of regret for the loss of a figure you admire? Why the desire to see literary appreciation under the most contemptible aspect? Rarely had the principle of de gusti­bus non est disputandum felt so disputable; rarely had the space for liking something felt so besieged by a worry over what that liking might say about you.The good news for us and for PC gamers is that one week after release Ubisoft released a patch that fixed many of these glaring issues.

but unfortunately this time it was completely out of our hands.Although Ubisoft is very discrete about this kind of details.

but because vsync could not be disabled it was a showstopper for us.Splinter Cell: Conviction is the sequel of Splinter Cell: Double Agent released in 2006.