Contemporary Fiction

[Ya Sam]

'Gargantua and Pantagruel' is definitely worth re-reading, especially if you 
happen to have read Bakhtin's study 'Rabelais and his World'. What I am 
drawing attention to is that 'Gargnatua..' was as gimmicky and uncomfortable 
book at the time as The House of Leaves is now. I am not putting them on the 
same level, God forbid! But once you've re-read Rabelais's book, I would 
recommend you to read House of Leaves.


>From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
>To: Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: RE: Contemporary Fiction
>Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:40:38 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Okay, House of Leaves, then.  But I've also really
>wanted to reread Gargantua and Pantagruel, so ...
>
>--- Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It is a novel of excess, no doubt about that, but
> > Rabelais' ouevre is one hell of excess as well....
>
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