The Antinomies of Realism

[alice malice]

How could anyone write a book about the novel and not know that bad guys
often make great narrators? Can you seriously doubt that   Jameson has read
the canonical novels, classics, whatever that feature bad guy narratives?
Maybe he has no business writing a book about the novel? Or, maybe he's
saying something about the influence of War on art, on narrative, and by
extension, the Military that controls things even after the war is ended?

24 Okla. City U. L. Rev. 681 (1999)
Law of Simulated War in Gravity's Rainbow, The; Spencer, Nicholas

http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/okcu24&div=37&id=&page=


On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:21 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> War is non-narrative because...bad guys don't narrate?  Is that this guys
> shtick?
>
> On Tuesday, February 18, 2014, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> "... war ... is virtually non-narrative, and ... this raw material
>> seeks to appropriate its missing protagonist from any number of
>> narrative paradigms, ranging from the conventions of generic war
>> novels or films ... to [a] multiplicity of generic experiments ..."
>> (p. 251)
>>
>> http://www.versobooks.com/books/1498-the-antinomies-of-realism
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
>
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