Pataphysics?

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Interesting indeed. It's been a quite long time since I last took a look at
Brian McHale's "Postmodernist Fiction", but I don't think he mentions the
Jarryan/Lopezian 
"pataphor" when he speaks of how metaphors get literalized in Po-Mo fiction.
(Maybe Lopez coined it only after PF was published.) As examples of these
"hypertrophies" Brian gives at least a story by Barthelme, and the famous
"Living inside the System is like riding across the country in a bus driven by
a maniac bent on suicide..." passage from GR.


Heikki

Quoting Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>:

> An interesting angle. Pataphysics also play an important role in Julio 
> Cortázars novel "Hopscotch", a work comparable in some respects to 
> Pynchon's early novels.
> 
> Thomas
>