#44: Larry's Parents and Grandparents

Tore Rye Andersen torerye at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 6 01:35:22 CDT 2009


alice: 
 
> What is so innovative and experimental is how the characters are
> constructed/deconstructed, not with the conventional or traditional
> method, not with description, what characters say, do, think and feel
> only, but with palimpsest and pastiche and parody, not only of paper
> texts but of the confluence and loomings of books, films, TV,
> rich-media, and the actors, and so on.

Writers have been doing this for at least 50 years: Gaddis did it in
The Recognitions and Pynchon certainly did it in V. Are 'innovative'
and 'experimental' really the words we want for this sort of thing 
here in 2009? 		 	   		  
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