GRGR(29) - The Grid, The Comb

[jbor]

> But since you prefer to view postmodernism as a transhistorical category,
> why not revive the original name for this kind of writing: satire?  It's
> really too bad the term was shrunk up to fit only such a small aspect of
> what "satura" once meant.  And a fine "baggy monster" the genre was -- and
> is.

Who was it that called all those Nineteenth Century novels "loose, baggy
monsters"? I'd still like to distinguish between satire which places itself
above the object of the satire (i.e. implicitly posits a superior,
quasi-objective vantage inhabited by author and reader) and the sort of
reflexive "satire" wherein reader and writer are both also implicated in the
fracas. In *GR* the most frightening recognition is that "They" are in fact
us.

best


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>From: "Vaska Tumir" <vaska at geocities.com>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: GRGR(29) - The Grid, The Comb
>Date: Sat, Jul 1, 2000, 8:25 AM
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