Talk:The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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Well this certainly needs major work.--69.139.25.179 (talk) 22:01, 17 December 2007 (UTC)judeoneill

Trujillo

There is a factual error in this article. Junot Could have based some of the book based on his experiences in Dominican Republic under trujillo as Junot was born in 1968 and trujillo was killed in 1960 NeoXtremeX (talk) 03:12, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

It's directly from the source (several sources that I've seen, actually), so I assure you it's correct. It was meant to be two separate sources of inspiration, however: it was based upon his childhood and his nation's past experience with Trujillo. I've tried to make that clearer just now. María (habla conmigo) 11:17, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Drown

Drown is a collection of short stories written from various perspectives but the relevant part of the article may be referencing the story "Drown." This is unclear in the article.

However, I don't think there is any evidence in that story to support that both narrators are the same person. I only looked over the story briefly this morning but I don't think the narrator is named or that there is any link other than running and location. In fact, a passage in Oscar Wao seems to suggest that Yunior may be the narrator of "Edison, NJ" since he mentions spending the weekends "hunting the pussy and delivering pool tables." But the job held by the narrator in "Edison, NJ" seems like it is full-time and he is again (I think) unnamed. An argument could be made that many elements of those stories are present in his first novel and may even be exploratory character sketches but I didn't see too many overt links. Wanting to be proved wrong on this because I love character-crossover like that.PatboyX (talk) 11:38, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Film

I hear there is a film in production. Do you have any information?--Nauki (talk) 11:28, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Scott Rudin was the one who bought the rights (which have since expired, according to the article). That fuku just goes on and on....

2600:1700:8D40:9B60:9E6:7CB2:6283:D95D (talk) 15:48, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

I am working on this article

I am working on improving this article, and will be expanding the plot section.

Kingandroid (talk) 22:28, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

double page?

as i was seaching for this book, i seem to have found that there are two web pages for the same book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wao and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao both are diferent as there are slight differences on the two. is there a reason for this, or just an internal error? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.66.19.91 (talk) 02:37, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

That's just a redirect page. Not to worry. Polyglottalstop (talk) 06:57, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Slender Man factual error

Section 4.2.1 on the faceless man lists the slender man as being a product of German folklore. In fact, the slender man is a relatively recent phenomenon, getting its start in 2009 on the forums of Something Awful. As the story grew, the bogeyman of German folklore Der Großmann was advanced as an origin story to give the myth more credibility. You can learn more about the myth here.

I've updated the article by removing any attempted explanation of the myth's origins and linking Slender Man. Hopefully someone will create the page in time. Please let me know if you'd like to discuss the matter further. Polyglottalstop (talk) 07:05, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

I removed the reference to Slender Man because it was first noted on Something Awful in 2008 and Oscar Wao was published in 2007. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Monsieurpeanut2 (talk • contribs) 21:34, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

"Reliability" subsection

Seems to be original research to me. Tagged it as such. Edward Rice (talk) 18:32, 18 June 2013 (UTC)