"exhausted by Mark Z Danielewski's dense and overly-complicated tome"

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Surprised that he puts USA in the same class as Pynchon.  Most of the writing consists of very simple prose, sandwiched between small stream of consciousness "Newsreel" and autobiographical "Camera's Eye" sections.   A great work, but hardly difficult.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Sep 24, 2006 11:26 AM
>To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: "exhausted by Mark Z Danielewski's dense and overly-complicated tome"
>
>"While doggedly working through Mark Z Danielewski's
>Only Revolutions, I was constantly reminded of other
>similarly 'difficult' works, whose invention is such
>that they require decoding rather than reading, whose
>obsessive brilliance is of the almost autistic kind.
>The Thomas Pynchon of Gravity's Rainbow sprang to mind
>early on. Then, given the epic sweep of Danielewski's
>narrative, Dos Passos's USA."
>
>from:
>
>I wouldn't say this is unreadable ...
>Sean O'Hagan finds himself exhausted by Mark Z
>Danielewski's dense and overly-complicated tome, Only
>Revolutions
>Sunday September 24, 2006
>The Observer
>Only Revolutions
>by Mark Z Danielewski
>
>
>I read and enjoyed GR long before I got into a closer
>reading with research, which added new levels of
>enjoyment. "requires decoding" and "autistic" are
>unreasonably harsh assessments of GR, seems to me. 
>
>
>
>
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