alternatives

[joeallonby]

I haven't read the Dick novel. His stuff tends to "read fast" so it might be
a good choice for a quick summer discussion.

on 7/12/04 2:40 PM, umberto rossi at teacher at inwind.it wrote:

> 
> I'd like to show you a list of possible alternatives to reading again
> one of P.'s novels (which does not mean we shouldn't do that any
> more, but simply let the oeuvre cool down for some months, maybe...).
> 
> 1. Group-reading of John Hawkes' The Cannibal. This novel is
> considered one of P.'s major sources of inspiration. Somebody dares
> say that literary postmodernism begins with Hawkes. It deals with
> post-W.W.2 Germany, and it features a Zone of sorts.
> 
> 2. J. Heller's Catch-22. Something good for the summer. The first
> postmodernist best-seller, another book P. has read and pondered.
> Lots of links to GR.
> 
> 3. Gaddis' The Recognitions. I haven't read it, but some Italian
> Pynchonites say that Gaddis is P.'s master. Is that true? We might
> find by ourselves. (One of the hypothesis about P.'s identity was
> that he's Gaddis in disguise.)
> 
> 4. PK Dick's Time Out of Joint. The novel the 1st part of GR is based
> upon. Something good in hot weather.
> 
> umberto rossi
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