Dies Irae

[Ya Sam]

Yes, it's Handbook of Drawing. It is in two volumes in the original edition 
imitating those huge drawing textbooks, you know, "teach yourself to draw 
animals, human anatomy, etc." It will definetely be translated into several 
languages. The reviews have been diametrically opposite. But, in my opinion, 
one of the plotlines mentioned in the reviews in which an artist falls in 
love with a raped ferret has something of Gogol's absurdity which is, in a 
way, proto-Pynchonian. It has also been said that the language is rather 
baroque. Well, as I see it the main idea of the novel has been to 
investigate how  it has become possible nowadays that what the author 
beleives to be very marginal art, not to say anti-art, has become 
mainstream. It's like, asking oneself question why, figuratively speaking, 
for many people Duchamp's urinal is more important than Mona Lisa, but, of 
course, it's not that simple. Anyway I haven't read it, so can't say much 
yet.

>From: gp <wescac at gmail.com>

>To: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>
>CC: pbeneforti at inwind.it, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Dies Irae
>Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 00:24:23 -0400
>
>The two-volume Russian book denouncing avante garde - is that Handbook
>of Drawing?  Has it been broken into two volumes?  Or is this another
>book which I will also wait with baited breath to be translated?
>
>On 10/6/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >I'm so sorry for Genna, but thedistance and the differences between
>> >DeLillo's novels and his one are very very large.
>> >
>>
>>Have you read it? Is it really that bad, or we're just talking different
>>levels? There seems to be a lot of noise about this novel in the Italian
>>press, which is not an indicator of quality of course.
>>
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