NPPF Faulkner and Proust

[Ghetta Life]

>From: hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi
>
>
>Personally, I wouldn't say "far superior", but I do love, say, _Absalom, 
>Absalom!_ more than anything by VN and almost anything by anyone.

Yes!  Not to mention _Light in August_.

This synopsis of Coetzee's essay on PF was very nice.  I think Coetzee's 
criticism is vey insightful.

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>  COETZEE'S NABOKOV'S PALE FIRE AND THE PRIMACY OF ART
>
>Panza, John R.,
>Explicator, 00144940, Summer99, Vol. 57, Issue 4
>Database: Academic Search Elite
***Big Snip***
>Not surprisingly, Coetzee defines radical art by way of Samuel Beckett:
>
>"That art is radical which, facing the abyss between language and the 
>world, turns toward silence and the end of art [. . .]. Beckett's most 
>radically decreative work is The Unnamable [. . .]. By the measure of The 
>Unnamable, the radicalism of Pale Fire is half-hearted" (5).
>
>Coetzee asserts that Beckett achieves through silence what Nabokov's 
>protagonists try--but fail--to achieve through aggression and name calling.

This is great!  I recently discovered Beckett's Trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies 
and The Unnamable) and loved it.  It is not only radical art, it is funny 
and completely enjoyable.  All this in narration by characters who don't 
have a clue who or where they are!

Ghetta

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