Modiano's Place de L'etoile

[rich]

as the motivations behind the leaders of the rue lauriston gang, simple
thievery and murder for hire--not much in the way of fascist sentiments as
far as I know. so, freelancers
PM's second novel in the trilogy, The Night Watch, hones in on this point
from the first person view in the the thick of it all--extortion, thievery,
even murder. he's a feckless guy, going with the flow, with not much in the
way of goals, drives, ideology beyond worry for his mother. Of course, the
style is surreal, mysterious, and sinister--cant help to think of the
torturers in the movie Salo. what's great about it is how PM doesnt focus
so much on the bigger picture, alluding to empty boulevards, mass exoduses
and repossessed homes, torture rooms, those taking advantage of blackouts,
fear of crime, and those ever present black cars for extractions. there's
hardly any Germans about at all. which I think may be one of PM's points.
Celine haunts the place too

rich

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> TE> Michael Townley, professional killer in the service of DINA and
> probably the CIA
>
> Hey, most freelancers need multiple clients to make ends meet.
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 7:18 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <
> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>
>> FYI, as this happens to be news right now: The husband of the
>> aforementioned Chilean author Maria Callejas, Michael Townley, professional
>> killer in the service of DINA and probably the CIA, assassinated opposition
>> leader in exile Orlando Letelier in Washington D.C. in 1976. It was the
>> most spectacular assassination linked to Operation Condor, not least
>> because the murder took place on American soil.
>>
>> The US government has just revealed that Margaret Thatcher's and Franz
>> Josef Strauss' favourite fascist and cocaine dealer Augusto Pinochet
>> personally ordered the assassination of Letelier:
>>
>>
>> http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/08/pinochet-directly-ordered-washington-killing-diplomat-documents-orlando-letelier-declassified
>>
>> For Pinochet's cocaine dealing, see:
>>
>> http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/jul/11/chile.drugstrade
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 09.10.2015 um 02:09 schrieb Mark Thibodeau:
>>
>>> Here's another recommendation for Bolano's fantastic Borges-style (and
>>> very successful IMO) literary experiment, Nazi Literature in the
>>> Americas.
>>>
>>> If anybody would like a digital copy of it, simply contact me off-list
>>> and I'll email it to you.
>>>
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
>
>
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