Talk:Roberto G. Fernández
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Section removal
editI decided to remove the whole "Critical acclaim" section because it's literally nothing but a bunch of unsourced quotes of critics lavishing praise on Fernández's work. It reads more like something you'd expect to see on the back of a DVD case for last summer's blockbuster than an encyclopedia.
(Moved below in case anyone thinks anything in the section can/should be integrated into the article in some way.) --Lurkaccount (talk) 02:28, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
Critical acclaim
edit"Fernández brings to his narrative a lively innovative style and first-hand intimacy with the Cuban-American community. The result is a zany, unpredictable book that keeps its readers interested and surprised." on Raining Backwards, -San Francisco Chronicle
"No one writes about the Cuban-American experience with more voltage, more originality and imagination, than Roberto Fernández..." -Bob Shacochis, author of Easy in the Islands, Next New World, and Swimming in the Volcano.
"Fernández's spirited, appealing book, with its hyperbolic visions, is like an Under Milkwood written by a Cuban William Burroughs." -Publishers Weekly
"Holy Radishes! is a perfectly wonderful, magical book. It is by turns witty and wise, comic and tragic, in the clouds and down in the dirt. Even Dickens would be proud to have created such a cast of original and memorable characters. And not even Disney could have created a pig like the unforgettable Rigoletto." -Jesse Lee Kercheval, author of Museum of Happiness and Dogeater.
"Exhibiting the flair and inventiveness for which he is justly renowned, Roberto Fernández's brilliant new novel [En la Ocho y la Doce] draws a portrait of Cuban Americans that is at once hilarous and humane, cockeyed and compassionate. An excellent introduction to an often misunderstood community." -Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Columbia University
"Code-switching is an art... and Roberto G. Fernández is the consummate artist..." -Doris Sommer, Harvard University
Critical studies in English
editI am struggling to understand the need for this section - about half the article is a decade-old list of critical studies of Fernández's work. At the very least this needs to be brought up to date and heavily cut down, or perhaps turned into a small "further reading" section. Is it normal to have sections like this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iliad17 (talk • contribs) 14:09, 22 June 2023 (UTC)