American irrealism and the cult of experience

[alice malice]

Yes, good stuff. Pynchon ...and the others all fit quite easily into
the American tradition.

Bartleby and The Intuitionist are closer cousins than the essay allows.

And Barthelme:

The only real exception to this would be Donald Barthelme, who in
works such as Dead Father and the short story collection City Life
proved himself to be the most consistently irreal writer in American
literary history. More will be written about him in later issues of
Irreal (Re)views, but for the purposes of this essay it is sufficient
to say that his resistance in much of his work to expressing the
specificities of American experience and culture has not proven to be
influential.


Is he our Kafka?

In any event, good stuff.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://cafeirreal.alicewhittenburg.com/review2a.htm
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