pynchon-l-digest V2 #4832

[pynchonoid]

> 
> Well, if you don't like the politics of Houellbecq,
> you won't like Dantec.

His politics overwhelm his prose? I don't usually
choose novels based on politics, but on the writing,if
that's good, the politics are just part of the story,
so to speak.


> He is the son of communists and used to write
> cyberpunk roman noir.


Do you like these early novels?  Any particular one
stand out?  The description of Les racines du mal
*sounds* intriguing online.

> He then
> got some more political ambitions, moved to
> Montreal, were he  started
> writing essays  about how he disliked the new soviet
> union that was becoming
> the european union. After september 11, he turned
> catholic and started
> waging war against islamofascism in order to defend
> european civilisation -
> the source of everyg good things in the world.
> 
> His novels have become longer and more confused. He
> sometimes has a spark of
> genius that enable him to write some beautiful
> paragraphs, but for most of
> the pages it's just dull, uninspired prose, when
> it's not plain ridiculous.
> I think he was translated 

If I read him it will be in French.

>and published in the US by
> a publishing house that
> made Deleuze available to the american public - and
> Dantec in his essays
> talk at length of Deleuze, Debord, etc, but let's
> just say his
> interpretation is a bit peculiar. His other
> favourite thinker is Joseph de
> Maistre, he supports Bush and the war on terrorism,
> thinks we are right now
> in the midst of the fourth world war. Much, much
> more right-wing than
> Houellbecq.
> 
> F.
> 

Thanks for taking the time to write this.  I heard
Dantec described in somewhat Pynchonian terms
recently, and now I guess that's as much wishful
thinking as any other "Pynch-alike" comparison.



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