slaggin' Moore, Gaddis, Franzen and DeLillo pre-Nobel

[David Morris]

>From: "s~Z" <keithsz at concentric.net>
>
>William Gass, in his introduction to "The Recognitions," names the childish 
>thing that it's time to put behind us: "Too often we bring to literature 
>the bias for 'realism' we were normally brought up with." Gass's defense of 
>difficulty complements Tabbi's, but with greater sophistry and 
>alliteration. "If the author works at his work," Gass writes, "the reader 
>may also have to [...]"

Du-uhhh!  Is the above statement difficult or controversial?  Simpletons are 
not usually in the history of art admired.  Literature requires an education 
to be loved, but such education is everywhere.  It's on TV, and the 
internet, and German toilet paper...

David Morris

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