foreshadowing?

[Mark J. Perrone]

Is that passage from Paul Auster's _Leviathan_?  If not from there, I know
I've definitely read it somewhere before.

Mark
>
>Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 00:49:14 -0500 (EST)
>From: Djuna35 at aol.com
>Subject: foreshadowing?
>
>I stumbled across this passage in the novel I was reading this evening, and
>while we're playing games, I'll present it as one.   It sounds to me like a
>review-in-waiting for M&D.  Guess the source?
>
>     "As every reader knows, xxxxx is a historical novel, a meticulouly
>researched book set in America between 18xx and 18xx, and based on
>documented, verifiable facts.   Most of the characters are imaginary, they
>are not inventions so much as borrowings, figures stolen from the pages of
>other novels.  Otherwise, all the events are true-- true in the sense that
>they folow the historical recore-- and in those places where the record is
>unclear, there is no tampering with the laws of probability.  Everything is
>made to seem plausible, matter-of-fact, even banal in the accuracy of its
>depiction.  And yet xxxx continually throws the reader off guard, mixing so
>many genres and styles to tell his story that the book begins to resemble a
>pinball machine, a fabulous contraption with blinking lights and ninety-eight
>different sound effects.  From chapter to chapter, he jumps from traditional
>third-person narrative to first-person diary entries and articles to essays
>to dramatic dialogues.  It's a whirlwind performance, a marathon sprint from
>the first line to the last, and whatever you might think of the book as a
>whole, it's impossible not to respect the author's energy, the sheer
>gutsiness of his ambitions."
>
>I could quote more, but I'll stop with just one paragraph.  I was startled:
>it's near to my imagining of what awaits at the end of the month.  
>
>steve klinge
>
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