NP Very Misc. Wooden idea

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

OK, I bite.

That Wood is an a-historical phony becomes obvious not only where he 
disses authors like Pynchon but also where he is on a mission to 
re-introduce authors from classical modernity.

Look at this - doubtlessly: inspired - review of Hamsun from 1998:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20/n23/james-wood/addicted-to-unpredictability

("Hunger" is a hell of a book --- go and read it if you can!)

The sentence which is so extremely stupid is the following:

 > His senseless hatred of England – he never supplied any reason for 
this prejudice – drove him into a mindless veneration of Germany. <

"(H)e never supplied any reason for this prejudice(?)" This is bullshit. 
Now, Hamsun was an anti-globalist writer, one of the first. It isn't for 
nothing that the words "earth" and "soil" pop up so often in his work. 
The clearest expression of Hamsun's anti-globalist message can be found 
in the novel "August" (dt. August Weltumsegler) from 1930, which 
explicitly articulates anti-capitalism as anti-globalism, but it goes 
all through his work and can also be found in his journalism. And which 
nation did represent the indivisible world-market in Hamsun's times? 
That's the UK. So, is James Wood an idiot? No, of course not. Probably 
he just wanted to push Hamsun and make him more read among anglophone 
readers. As likable as that is, as off turning is his phony acting 
stupid. I really despise this ...


On 02.03.2015 12:40, Mark Kohut wrote:
> We should gather all our Wood thoughts and self-publish them.
> Knock(s) on Wood.
>
> We might get, Oh, 3--5 buyers outside of ourselves (but I bet even
> we won''t buy it. Why should we, they are all here).
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