Talk:Tarantula (poetry collection)

message: Can someone put in the article a little bit more information regarding how to go about reading this? Anyone who can't read between the lines won't know how to read it or anything. Plus, surely we have more information on Dylan's only novel(la). Aaрон Кинни (t) 06:10, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to read it 

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message: I've read this book and I think it's great, but it's not a novel - Is it? 76.119.135.114 (talk) 23:13, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed. Prose poetry collection seems a more accurate description. It's also referenced in the prose poetry article. External reference included. --StephenDaedalus (talk) 19:41, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  It's a novel? 

message: Removed WP:Opinion from article, but put here in case any other editors thought it interesting
Tarantula is not stream of conscious as every one thinks - Dylan simply doesn't function like that. Every word is selective and absolutely nailed to the floor; the book has themes of bodily organs/mouths/hunger/thirst/sickness and ailments, music (sound of sound), fertility symbols (hair, blood etc.) the regenerative and destructive symbols of water and rain. The Christ/Fisher King motif runs through it just as Eliot uses it in the Wasteland. The chapter Chug A Lug Chug A Lug Hear Me Hollar HGi De Ho, for example, features a failed Christ-type figure stuck in a tree. In parts of the New Testament it is said that he was crucified on a tree. Check out Robin Witting's writings; he actually specialises in Tarantula because - as he says - No else seems to be doing it. The book is celebration and reflection of chaos.
  A rich and complex book. User:Screaming Ghost
--Richhoncho (talk) 13:06, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research 

message: Translations? 
Citation needed? 
French (11)
Spanish (8)
Undetermined (4)
Danish (2)
Croatian (2)
Italian (2)
Swedish (2)
Dutch (1)
German (1)
Portuguese (1)
Russian (1)
Turkish (1) 
https://www.worldcat.org/title/tarantula/oclc/137778/editions?cookie=&start_edition=1&sd=desc&se=yr&referer=br&qt=show_more_ln%3A&editionsView=true&fq=&fc=ln%3A_25
EDLIS Café  22:51, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translations?