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° Just started "The Corrections" yesterday. (Picador USA paperback
for 1- € plus porto at E-bay). First 86 pages I read fast. The thing
got suspense, one wants to know how it goes on. At least I want to.
But that's, then again, the same as with writers like T.C. Boyle or 
Ian McEwan. It's TV on paper! Every motive is decodable at once,
nothing "non-identical" (Adorno) left. Example? When Chip is drowning 
the porn video in dishwater, the narrative voice adds: "(He'd done 
this with many a pack of cigarettes while kicking the habit.)". By 
then - couldn't Franzen have at least left out the brackets? - every
idiot knows that Chip will soon start to smoke again. And right, just
14 pages later we read: "He decided, after five years without, that 
the time had come to buy some cigarettes." I wouldn't call this
elegant writing. Franzens's prose is kinda too transparent for our
late-late-late-modernity ... But don't get me wrong, I appreciate
his sociological awareness and feel entertained by the novel which
gives me a break from my sanity shattering Heidegger/Deleuze stuff -

Tonight I'm gonna watch "24" on TV --

KFL + 


 
"Malignd" <malignd at yahoo.com> schrieb:

>  The Corrections is really good.