Difficult Books

[Keith Davis]

Very interesting...

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:27 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Can anyone give a Pynchonista's appraisal of Joseph McElroy? He's
> > never really made it onto my radar but sounds intriguing. Worth it?
>
> ... having been unemployed for two and a half years now, and having
> had a copy since the 20th century, I probably should have finished, or
> @ least made visible progress in, it, but ...
>
> ... but Brian McHale has a whole chapter on it in Constructing
> Postmodernism (1993), which is what provoked me to pick it up in the
> 1st place:
>
> http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415060141/
>
>
> http://estudiosliterariosdos.wikispaces.com/file/view/mchale+Constructing-Postmodernism.pdf
>
> I can vouch 1sthand, however, for J McE's Plus (1977):
>
> http://books.google.com/books/about/Plus.html?id=lFaZPwAACAAJ
>
> ... which I learned of from
> http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Soft_Machine.html?id=geENAAAAQAAJ
> ...
>
> The lost postmodernist: Joseph McElroy
>
>
> http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/07/the-lost-postmodernist-joseph-mcelroy.html
>



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