American irrealism and the cult of experience

[David Morris]

I only know Gilles Goat Boy, and it felt dated. It is a allegorical satire
that I felt its cultural connections had been forgotten in this era.  Not
Borges or Kafka in my book.

David Morris

On Monday, October 27, 2014, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > http://cafeirreal.alicewhittenburg.com/review2a.htm
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