Rodrigo Fresan's review of AtD

[Ya Sam]

It happened. Finally the Mexican writer Rodrigo Fresan wrote a review of 
Against the Day. Just like Lawrence Norfolk in Britain or Leonardo Colombati 
in Italy he has been heavily influenced by Pynchon's work.

Some interesting points.

Fresan calls it a Great Hysterical-Historical Novel. Although it is the most 
historical of his novels, it quickly 'assumes the condition' of an object 
'outside time and space'.
He compares AtD to an encyclopedia dropped into a barrel of LSD as well as 
to a 50 hour film by David Lynch who would rely 'on a hallucinated producer 
and a multi-million budget'.

As compared to the previous novels AtD 'isn't a novel about chaotic lives or 
chaotic moments but rather about the birth of modern Chaos and its numerous 
imperfections, which is told imperfectly with the wish to explain The Great 
Trouble in which we live today and the way fear mobilises powers or the way 
the Power uses Fear to mobilise. AtD is the application of zapping and the 
Internet principles ... to a past on the point of becoming the futuristic 
present...'

'Insert here one of those pynchonesque songs whose refrain could be: 
“Against the day/ He did it his way/ He had his day/ Again/ Hey! Hey! 
Hooray!" And then we enter, the choir boys with bulging and revolving eyes, 
we spasmodically dance, lost addicts who regained themselves in a Pynchon 
novel, while asking the audience how long we'll have to wait for the next 
comedy of ideas, good ideas, signed by that alien who from time to time 
appears on The Simpsons, eh?'


http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/libros/7-2007-04-19.html

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