In the zone: perception and presentation of space in German and American ... - Hugo Caviola - Google Books

[Heikki R]

Yep. I'd add Cocteau's Zone in Orpheus (1950) - this mercurial intermediary
space (that Orpheus can enter through mirrors) between the everyday world
and Death's abodes. The "Bengt Ekerot/Maria Casarès Film Festival" indeed...

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:02 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Check out Brian McHale's book _Postmodernist Fiction_, chapter 3, "In
> the Zone" where the chapter's epigraph is from GR, but the discussion
> begins with older works.
>
> There is Julio Cortazar's zone, William Burroughs's, Alasdair Gray's.
> Behind them all lies Apollinaire's poem "Zone" (from Alcools, 1913),
> whose speaker, strolling through the immigrant and red-light districts
> of Paris, finds in them an objective correlative for modern Europe and
> his own marginal, heterogeneous, and outlaw experience. Clearly
> derived from Apollinaire's, Cortazar's zone (in 62: A Model Kit, 1968)
> is a space of overlapping subjectivities, including shared fantasies
> and nightmares, which comes into being whenever his cast of bohemians
> and cosmopolitans convenes somewhere in "the DMZ [demilitarized zone]
> atmosphere of cafes." Burroughs's zone, or interzone, is a vast,
> ramshackle structure in which all the world's architectural styles are
> fused and all its races and cultures mingle, the apotheosis of the
> Third World shanty-town. Sometimes it is located in Latin America or
> North Africa, sometimes (as in The Ticket That Exploded, 1962) on
> another planet, sometimes (as in Cities of the Red Night, 1981) in a
> lost civilization of the distant past. By contrast, Alasdair Gray's
> zone (in Lanark, 1981), a space of paradox modeled on the Wonderland
> and Looking-glass worlds of the Alice books, has been displaced to the
> ambiguous no man's land between cities. IN THE ZONE 45 Finally,
> combining elements of all these postmodernist zones, there is Thomas
> Pynchon's zone. "In the Zone," the title....(43-44).
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Looking up the phrase "In the Zone" in Google Books to check some
> possible
> > resonances from Pynchon, I learned this. Except for a literal use in an
> old
> > astronomy book from 1915...stars in a zone.....Gravity's Rainbow is the
> > earliest
> > work to use it...(page 4 of my google books search).....
> >
> > Seems, from a book about,  there was a place outside, around Paris in the
> > mid-eighteen hundreds referred to as the Zone, which seems to have been
> very
> > like a preterite
> > zone, a Nighttown zone, ala my recent post.
> >
> > From Google Books, there is no indication that later (than GR ) uses of
> In
> > the Zone--
> > that famous psychological meaning [with Flow] or in golf and anything
> else
> > existed (in books) before GR and before the time of GR.
> >
> > Here is a scholarly book that starts with using Pynchon's phrase.....
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> https://books.google.com/books?id=3qJZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22In+the+zone%22&dq=%22In+the+zone%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjRm5TZoMfKAhUFvYMKHeTEBxo4KBDoAQgiMAA
> >
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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