BE #1 Amazon Best Seller in "Historical Mystery"

[Keith Davis]

By the time we become aware that something has happened, it's already past.


On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:

> I think you nailed it with your last sentence, Bekah. Soon "retro"
> will mean wearing the clothes you didn't take off last night because
> you were too drunk. Maybe we're reaching the point at which the
> universe is finished expanding and starts to contract again, reversing
> time and making "history" a reference to the future.
>
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > I have a small issue with the "historical" part of the genre
> description.  How "historical" can 2001 be?  Pynchon and the readers of BE
> were all likely adults at the time and as a result have a personal
> involvement - not an historical one.   Precious few books are written about
> the times we actually live in - they're usually set at least 3 or 4 years
> prior often up to 10 or so.  (Suite Francois was very surprising and
> Pattern Recognition was similar in its chronological proximity of setting -
> so to speak).
> >
> > What with the speed of technology (we're now exploring the real "outer"
> space) I suppose history is anything that happened yesterday?
> >
> > Bekah
> >
> >
> > On Sep 15, 2013, at 6:46 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I say give the Amazon folk credit, they nailed it. They couldn't call
> >> it a Romance, or those academinc terms, postmodern, high modern, or as
> >> Cowart does, roman fleuve, or hysterical...metafiction... so I like
> >> it.
> >>
> >> The American Mystery (Tanner).
> >>
> >> In this wonderful little book, Tanner, from the first essay on
> >> Emerson, which takes up this issue of Sloth and the Author, of Anarchy
> >> and Work, we see how Pynchon fits into this American Mystery
> >> tradition, again, not so Dieckensian as has been argued, nothing that
> >> European, but a studied son of the American Mystery.
> >>
> >> The mystery softens the blunt instrument that is anything that would
> >> work on 9-11 with a bleeding political edge.
> >
>



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