Infinite (not Jest but) Deadlock

[Ya Sam]

Maybe there is something about those writers as well. It's a pity that the 
English translation of Witkiewicz's 'Insatiability' is out of print, for, 
judging by what I read in reviews, it's one of the precursors of the novels 
like GR.



>Don't......there, just to the left, lies the likes of Witkiewicz, 
>Gombrowski
>& Schultz...
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>those guys took it to "11"......
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>love,
>cfa
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>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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