Subject: Re: AtD RE: ATD Spoilers

[Jason Helms]

I dig that Dave.  I've heard Crying of Lot 49 read as the great 
anti-detective story (along with Lolita and various works by Eco and Auster) 
and think it fits.  The idea of "unconcealing" is an interesting one in that 
it's Heidegger's translation of Aletheia (Greek for "truth) which is 
literally an un-forgetting.  This works well with the whodunits of the 
western canon--but I'm interested in how this operates in the 
post/metafiction of the last 50-150 yrs.  Does unconcealing begin to operate 
as poesis?  Just a thought.
Jason


I have a pet theory about "Western" literature
(fiction, nonfiction, what have you) being by and
large a matter of "whodunit"--in the sense of, the
truth is something hidden, something to be
unconcelaed--from Sophocles and Plato onward, then
tkaing a turn somewhere in the last 50-150 yrs
(somewhere betwixt Poe and Robbe-Grillet) to
"whocareswhodidit."  Lacan and Derrida batting around
"The Purloined Letter" alone ...

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