GR translation: the long rain in silicon and freezing descent

[Paul Mackin]

On 7/9/2011 11:47 AM, alice wellintown wrote:
> So much attention on GR, a book that seems, like TR, to follow in the
> tradition of American failures, but has great success, not only with a
> cult following, but with ordinary readers, academics, and critics.
>
> The Weisenburger Companion has a nifty note on the passage under
> discussion. Fowler may have a similar note.
> Worth a look.
>
One thing GR hasn't attained in the popular mind is status as an 
anti-war novel. I was struck by this in a book review in the morning 
Washington Post.  Reference was made as to how novels depicting  an 
earlier war but  published during a later one owe as much as anything to 
the antiwar sentiments at the time of publication.  Slaughter House Five 
and Catch 22 were mentioned but not GR. We have grown to expect this. GR 
just isn't the first thing journalists think of when they need an example.

In the past a number of p-listers have been firmly of the opinion GR is 
an anti-war novel.  Are they or the public correct?

P




>> And it's always a good thing when attention is on GR.
>>