"Erasure" by Percival Everett

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Hi James and all - belated new year and holiday greetings!

For better or worse, S/Z co-stars in an essay of mine, "Melville, Pynchon
and the Fulcrum of America", published in the Nordic critical collection
"Blissful Bewilderment: Studies in the Fiction of Thomas Pynchon."
Edited by Anne Mangen and Rolf Gaasland. Oslo: Novus Press. 2002.

And now here:
https://sites.google.com/site/fulcrumofamerica/melpynch


Heikki

On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, James Kyllo wrote:

> Sitting reading this over dinner in the Indian restaurant this
> evening, and came upon the following (page 42):
>
> "Then I heard my name being shouted from outside.  It was a bit
> embarrassing as I turned to find the hotel staff and a couple of
> guests staring at me.  I stepped out and on the narrow path leading
> through the yard was Davis Gimbel.
>
> 'A screaming comes across the sky.  It has happened before, but there
> is nothing to compare it to now,' he said.
>
> The words had little effect on me, save to announce Gimbel's
> disturbed, certifiable, and agitated post-modern state."
>
> Context: protagonist has just given a paper at a meeting of the
> Nouveau Roman Society about his novel in progress which "treats this
> critical text by Roland Barthes, S/Z, exactly as it treats its
> so-called subject text which is Balzac's 'Sarrasine'"
>
> (I never knew that Keith M's handle was a Barthes reference - thought
> it was a contraction of "Schwitters", which he'd previously posted
> under)
>
> the novel, 100 pages in, is not as insufferable as the above might
> lead you to believe.
>
> J
>
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