A Review of GR in Open Salon

[alice wellintown]

I gave up on the review; I read about half of it, I think, after the
Proust ref. I decided that the reviewer is, for the most part, correct
in his descriptions of GR, though he seems hung up on the po-mo term,
and though I get what he means, he is wrong to call GR a po-mo
literature; the reviewer should not read Proust or Wallace or Joyce
(F-Wake or Ulysses), or lotz of other big fat loose and baggy books,
the tradition of the Italian Picaro, that we might even trace to the
Odyssey, but also to the pilrimage, be it the works of Dante, Bun-yuns
progress, (he will not dig the Onion--a satirical newspaper, or
appreciate the one onion Vinyet in the brothers Karamazov either) the
perigrinations across lands and nations will not appeal to him, books
that fielding or sterne or cervantez playfully push out of their oree
fist ez scatalogically slipshodically, no, not romances generally,or
the novels that jane has her characters defend ironically and
githically in northanger abbey,  but should stck with short stories.
Poe, who wrote a fine defense and definition of the tale, or short
narrative, would rip Pynchon and Joyce a new black box, though his
narrative of pym is a pin in the pynchon flam flan and trim. if one of
my students submitted this review as an essay, a reader response
essay,not an anlysis,  though the review, or the first half of it,
does include some minor points of analysis, demonstrating some
knowledge of the tradition and conventions, I would give him an A and
tell him to consider switching to the math department.