#44: Larry's Parents and Grandparents

[alice wellintown]

Has it been 50 years? OK, so it has. Yes, but Gaddis is dead and so
are many of the other post-war innovators and experimenters while P is
alive and still publishing works, two recent works, AtD and IV, while
not revolutionary, are certainly evolutionary in the sense that the
author continues to experiment and innovate.


On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> alice:
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>> 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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