Vollmann (was: Re: PoMo Studies Hoax (gets taken seriously))

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

I'm reading "Poor People" (in the translation - "Arme Leute" - of Robin Detje, Berlin 2018: edition suhrkamp) & enjoying it a lot. Vollmann is, in my humble opinion, best when he's working based on primary experiences of his own. Unlike Pynchon, he's not so good with secondary sources, at least I was not convinced by "Europe Central" at all. But where he goes into the field - like in "The Rainbow Stories", "The Royal Family" or, case in question, "Poor People" - he's developing the particular sensitivity Hubert Fichte, a German writer with a similar approach, called the "ethnopoetic" style. It's better than social science, --- it's true in a human respectively existential sense.

> The genius of Poor People is how Vollmann demonstrates the arbitrariness of the line we draw between “self” and “other.” <

http://quarterlyconversation.com/poor-people-by-william-t-vollmann-review
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https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2017/hubert_fichte/hubert_fichte_start.php

Am 08.10.2018 um 17:43 schrieb Becky Lindroos:

finally reading Wm Vollmann’s “The Ice Shirt”   -  sigh - loving it -