Infinite (not Jest but) Deadlock

[Ya Sam]

No it wasn't that simple. First he wrote a relatively short text. Much 
shorter than the poem in 'Pale Fire'. Then he wrote about 900 notes to this 
text. These notes represent a mixture of genres, philosophical essay, 
literary criticsm, novel etc. The 'original' text was not published as it 
was not as significant as the notes. This novel is mentioned alongside 
Pynchon's novels in the only Pynchon monograph in Russian by Alexei Lalo 
'Thomas Pynchon and his America'.


>From: Jasper Fidget <jasper at hatguild.org>
>To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Infinite (not Jest but) Deadlock
>Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:05:49 -0400
>
>Did Dmitry Galkovsky write the book about the book about the book -- or
>was it his dead daughter's ghost?
>
>On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 20:47 +0300, Ya Sam 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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