Alexander Theroux

[rich]

I really liked that book--read it years ago. a love story but a very unique
one--if memory serves, it was as if some Joycean made up a story about Joyce
and Nora where Nora leaves him for another man (Joyce did have this
obsession--in fact, I thin that's what his play Exiles is all about)

didn't make it thru An Adultery but i liked Three Wogs
rich


On 10/26/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> What happened to this writer? Was he overrated after all?
>
> "...any computer search of his surname in a news data bank is more likely
> to
> spit out reviews of books by his brother Paul than any notice of this
> master
> of allusion and wordplay and wretched excess" ...
>
> "For those who prefer fiction that's dominated by psychological
> development
> and uncomplicated by flamboyant language (I don't), An Adultery may seem
> like an improvement over the two novels preceding it. With its dazzling
> vocabulary, play of different voices, and a profusion of forms,
> Darconville's Cat is a 700-page showcase of ornate and meticulous syntax,
> in
> a variety of styles and modes, mixing the natural with the supernatural
> and
> romantic fantasy with cynical satire. The names of the characters are
> verbal
> celebrations; the characters themselves are verbose projections of the
> quirks of the narrator (they are not, thank god, "real" people who
> threaten
> to jump off the page). Although Darconville's Cat has the breadth of some
> of
> its ambitious contemporaries (Mulligan Stew, Gravity's Rainbow), its
> digressions keep in close touch with the central story."
>
> http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=1443
>
> 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939:
> A Personal Choice by Anthony Burgess
>
>
> 1973
> Sweet Dreams, Michael Frayn
> Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
>
> .....
>
> 1981
> Lanark, Alasdair Gray
> Darconville's Cat, Alexander Theroux
> The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux
> Creation, Gore Vidal
>
> http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grt99.html
>
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