NP (again) Ms. Muller's The Appointment seems quite Pynchonian

[János Székely]

I happen to know a "couple-three" people who know her personally, or
had readings together with her. Imo they are better than her. They are
clueless now. Another er, non-parochial committee choice. (Frau Müller
shot up to no. 2 or 3 on Ladbroke's list yesterday, so there must have
been some leaking.) Apart from their anti-American bias, which seems
not to be gone with Engdahl, what never ceases to amaze me is their
total blindness to anything Russian. Maybe if Pelevin or Ulitskaya
were sent to prison, they would notice them.

János



2009/10/8 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
> "The narrator's resistance to the conspiratorial logic of the regime is most effectively expressed in Muller's meandering stream of consciousness narration. The sheer chaos of her narrative -- in which the numerous infidelities, betrayals and deceits that constitute the story's various threads are confusingly entwined in the narrator's mind -- is the source of the novel's overwhelming bleakness, more so than the fate of any particular character. (...) Detached from family, loved ones, even the world around her, Muller's narrator teeters on the edge of madness. Her tale, though haunting, offers the reader little insight. Muller's psychological acuity makes The Appointment both more and less than a fable" - Jason M. Baskin, Chicago Review (Winter/2002)
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