NP but Foucault---for Smoak

[peterthooper at juno.com]

there's a lot of explanation in _The Seventh Function of Language_
by Laurent Binet. If one doesn't mind
irreverence toward historical personages, that is, and of course fiction - postmodern detective fiction at that. Simon Herzog perhaps sort of signifies Oedipa Maas, for a Pynchon fan.

Mention is made of a type of suit depicted on a billboard featuring Serge Gainsbourg, during the 1980 setting. A Bayard suit...hmmm, the detective investigating Barthes' demise is named Bayard -- polysemy suggests that thinking Gainsbourg putting on the Bayard suit changes him to the implacable investigator Bayard who recruits Herzog, and/or that under each vigilant Bayard is a louche Gainsbourg, is only one possible meaning to tease.

Made me want to look at _Existentialist Cafe_ by Sarah Bakewell, because even though Binet portrays the semiologists as a Whole Sick Crew, some of the excitement of their doings shines through. 

and maybe even a bit stoked about Binet's earlier effort,
 a postmodern historical novel about Nazi-killers.









---------- Original Message ----------
From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Subject: NP but Foucault---for Smoak
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 05:44:52 -0400

I got this book, see, that dubs Foucault a "post-structuralist"..?!?

Gimme me at least 50 words on.

I can seldom get labels.
(I guess I'm not
a nominalist or I am or something.)

No ideas but in things.---WCWilliams.
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