re Book Description

[Otto]

And what is this, according to your standards?

Paul wrote:
GR is a novel of Being.  Vividly living through the nightmare of 
existence, without particular regard to the importance and significance 
of Events--events mainly indecisive. A main theme of the novel is the 
War. A memorable passage asks, what does the War want? A very 
existential question.

I think Paul is right in his description and it is neither sentimental 
nor trite what he says, like the comparable text about the new novel you 
are quoting.

GR is the novel of the unpredictable future, when the era of certainty 
has crashed down.

Note the reversal in the last sentence. Very pynchonesque, and it sounds 
as if it's something Paul might like.

MalignD at aol.com wrote:
> This blurb -- which you apparently want to be considered as a genre -- is, if 
> taken seriously -- that is, as an author writing about his work -- awful.  
> Consider this paragraph:
> 
> "As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an 
> unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their
> lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that 
> pursue them."
> 
> This is bad, sentimental, trite writing.  Parody is the only thing that lets 
> him off the hook, assuming he wrote it.  If he wrote this sincerely, well ... 
> There's always GR and a lot of reservations about what's coming, all 900 pages 
> of it.
> 
> 
> 

	

	
		
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