Misc. Literature quote of the day. Discuss.

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Lainaus Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:

>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>>> NewDirections NewDirections
>>> ?...after all, literature doesn?t exist anymore, only the example of it.?
>>> ?Roberto Bolaño, from BETWEEN PARENTHESE
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> Just shooting through my...nose....after reading a couple remarks about this
> book
> online,--one aspect evidently writers and their classification and   
> who doesn't
> fit
> a clasification---Cesar Aria----the aphorism may mean something   
> like............
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> writers no longer set out to write literature in any special form we used to
> know it, but
> they just write, as w Bolano fact and the made-up and if it is good enough it
> becomes
> an example of literature.................
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
> To: Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>; pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Thu, June 9, 2011 3:30:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Misc. Literature quote of the day. Discuss.
>
> On 6/9/2011 1:56 PM, Richard Ryan wrote:
>> So literature only exists as synecdoche?  Even if it were a testable
>> statement, so what?  Arguably the platonic notion of literature is
>> *only* really meaningful in the presence of concrete manifestations.
>
>
> Or maybe a particular novel, say, can only be a member of a class all
> novels.
>
> In other words all novels are members of one another.
>
> Does Bolano replace Sartre's "hell of other people" with the hell of
> other literature?
>
> Has it become impossible to extricate an "individual" work from the
> generality of all else?
>
> I presume Bolano would like to extricate his work from the hell of others.
>
> Will someone please read his book and let us know.
>

Regarding the Bolaño collection, the piece on Philip K. Dick obviously  
contains the following statement:

"Dick is the one who, in Ubik, comes closest to capturing the human  
consciousness or fragments of consciousness in the context of their  
setting; the correspondence between what he tells and the structure of  
what?s told is more brilliant than similar experiments conducted by  
Pynchon or DeLillo."
http://biblioklept.org/tag/roberto-bolano/

While I respect RB's view, IMO GR outdoes Ubik in this respect too.


Heikki

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>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>>> NewDirections NewDirections
>>> ?...after all, literature doesn?t exist anymore, only the example of it.?
>>> ?Roberto Bolaño, from BETWEEN PARENTHESE
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>>>
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