Fwd: [Comics_News] Tintin and the Secret of Literature

[Paul Di Filippo]

Note Pynch reference!



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> Date: October 22, 2006 3:41:22 PM EDT
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> Tintin and the Secret of Literature
> Bruce Elder
> Sydney Morning Herald October 20, 2006
> http://www.smh.com.au/news/book-reviews/tintin-and-the-secret-of-
> literature/2006/10/20/1160851103735.html
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> Without pretension, Tom McCarthy uses the Tintin oeuvre to write a
> fascinating book about the nature of literature.
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> Tintin and the Secret of Literature
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> Author Tom McCarthy
> Genre Society/Politics, Literature, Language
> Publisher Granta Books
> Pages 196
> RRP $39.95
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> Anyone who needs persuading that pop culture can be harnessed to
> reveal great truths about literature should read this book. Tom
> McCarthy believes that the comic strip adventures of Tintin, while
> not great literature, belong to a great literary tradition.
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> So, without pretension, he uses the Tintin oeuvre to write a
> fascinating book about the nature of literature.
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> This is not some kind of postmodernist exercise. It is a serious,
> well-written look at the nature of the novel. Herge (Tintin's
> creator) is seriously, and persuasively, compared with Conrad,
> Defoe, Cervantes, Flaubert, James and even Shakespeare.
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> This is literary criticism by analogy with McCarthy making
> observations such as "Herge uses Calculus ... in a similar way to
> that in which Thomas Pynchon uses the scientist Franz Pokler in ...
> Gravity's Rainbow". The book is infused with enthusiasm for both
> literature and Tintin; it makes the reader want to go out and devour
> all of Tintin instantly.
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