The Counterfeiters

[Richard Romeo]

Highly recommend Hugh Kenner's treatise on the mechanization of the arts 
among other things. The book mentions Vaucanson on a number of occasions (in 
fact, the cover illustrated by Guy Davenport, features our infamous duck).
Seems Kenner was orbiting the same literary minefield as Gaddis, who 
eventually took his life-long project and turned into a short novel, Agape 
Agape before he passed away.
The book is very funny if a bit over my head at times and it proves once 
more how close the parallel worlds of Pynchon and Gaddis really were.

Rich



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