GRGR(29) - The Grid, The Comb

[Vaska Tumir]

jbor:

> Who was it that called all those Nineteenth Century novels "loose, baggy
> monsters"?

Henry James.  A bit of writerly jealousy of George Eliot, mainly. IMO, of
course, though HJ does have a horrid little story about a lady writer, all
triple distilled essence of envy and ressentiment.

> 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.

That would be the useful part of our (modern) concept of satire.  I still
hanker after the original: a medley of forms and styles.

Vaska





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