The hi-minded joker

[Dave Monroe]

And he was always concerned with the modern self, the
American self. It is usual to give writers like
DeLillo and Pynchon credit for what seems the
essentially postmodern insight that we are colonised,
mediated, and finally oppressed by modern forms of
knowledge - by television, film, advertising, the
newspapers - and that this mediation has the effect of
making our own mental activity somewhat
self-conscious. But Bellow believed that public life
drives out private life, and that this pressure on the
private was a unique contemporary invention. His
modern heroes are clogged with belated thought - they
arrive so late in history, when there is too much too
know, too much to bear, and no one speaks the same
language....

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1455215,00.html


		
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