Kesey

[Bonnie Surfus (ENG)]

On Tue, 1 Aug 1995, Steelhead wrote:

> Kesey lives down the road from me. Though he has recently mourned the death
> of the novel as an animate art form (he's opting for multimedia projects),
> he continues to speak fondly of Notion.  Anyone who lives or has lived in
> Oregon knows the unremitting genius of that book--so far superior to
> Cuckoo's Nest.
> 
> Steelhead
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Speaking at UCF (not USF), on the traditional, paper novel vs. the 
electronic hypertextual or multimedia "novel," John Barth said (it was 
the focus of his entire speech) something like "I don't want to have to 
figure out Anna's thing for Vronsky;  what to do with Emma Bovary.  Let 
Tolstoy do his work;  I want Flaubert to TELL me."