Petillon

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

As far as I know, it's been the same P-Y Petillon all along. I last
read his TCoL49 essay in early 90s but I do recall him looking back
on mid-60s Paris. According to P-Y, he and the rest of the Parisian
literati immediately connected TCoL49 to OuLiPo, esp. Harry Mathews.


Heikki

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 mikebailey at speakeasy.net wrote:

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> >>...Pierre-Yves Petillon, and find he was a
> > > frequent contributor to a French periodical called "Critique" in at
> > > least the 60s, 70s and 80s...
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> > Maybe this is P-Y Petillon, Jr.
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> could be, if so there is a great family tradition.
> I was trying to find Critique on the Web but hampered by not knowing much French - not sure if the magazine is still around, even...
> The piece in Pynchon Notes 15 is great!
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> > > but that dates from 1995.
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> > Has post-modernism been discuss all that much since then?
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> not by me, before or since.
> hey, I didn't even know the word until 2004.
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> > If he's talking about explaining Deconstruction, any explanation--
> > simple or complex--could probably itself quickly be deconstructed.
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> Like the alchemical universal solvent, eh?
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> >> a campaign strategy suggested by
> > > a prominent left-anarchist thinker and apparently co-opted by the
> > > State Dep't or somebody
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> > Or by people discussing the Pynchon Japanese Playboy interview.
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> > Whimsically,
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> > P.
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> > >> 'Other' that the Tristero has thus
> > >> far represented is almost revealed as a version of
> > >> 'the other America' that Michael Harrington described
> > >> ....  This America is 'the America of poverty,'
> > >> 'hidden today in a way it never was before,'
> > >> 'dispossesed,' 'living on the fringes, the margin,' as
> > >> 'internal exiles.'
> > >>    "Looking back on the novel from the perspective of
> > >> its finale, it coul almost be viewed as a New Deal
> > >> novel, concerned with gathering back into the American
> > >> fold a 'third world' previouly excluded...." (pp.
> > >> 149-50)
> > >>
> > >> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0208&msg=69706
> > >>
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