Infinite (not Jest but) Deadlock

[Charles Albert]

Don't......there, just to the left, lies the likes of Witkiewicz, Gombrowski
& Schultz...


those guys took it to "11"......



love,
cfa

On 9/16/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Not sure if this was mentioned before, but there is another doorstop of
> Russian literature that might be intersting to Pynchon readers, although,
> unfortunately it's unlikely that it will ever get translated. It's out of
> print anyway. It was written in the end of the 1980s and was published in
> the 1990s, the influence is not of IJ of course, but that of Nabokov's
> 'Pale
> Fire'. A big book of notes to the text we never get to read. Here is some
> info available in English:
>
> "The Antibooker prize was won by Dmitry Galkovsky for his philosophical
> work
> "The Infinite Deadlock". The book comprises 1500 pages. To describe its
> plot
> is impossible.
> A member of the Antibooker panel of judges, Andrey Vasilevsky, says: "This
> is a book of extremely complicated structure, a book of annotations to a
> text that does not exist. Fresh annotations are made to these annotations,
> which forms an endless chain. Finally all gets so complicated, that the
> author supplements the book with a special index as to how to use it.
> However very few people can understand how to use that index."
> Dmitry Galkovsky's book is a shocking composition, provocative in terms of
> the ordinary people's perception of everyday life, politics and religion.
> It's a scandalous book, and the panel of judges admits this.
> Here's what another member of the panel of judges, Sergey Yesin, has to
> say:
> "This is an amazingly interesting reading for interesting persons, a
> breathtaking lacelike reading".
>
> http://www.vor.ru/culture/cultarch3_eng.html
>
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