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

[Jan Devenish]

I read Fathers and Crows on moving to Montreal as part of my personal
education on the French colonisation of Canada. I really enjoyed it, but I
can understand why one might not.
Most of his work is daunting to the point of being prohibitively long, but
he is one of my favourites. I always (usually) find that I am very
satisfied on finishing his books despite their length. I have read several
of the Seven Dreams series and have heard nothing but good things said
about The Dying Grass; I am excited for the final releases in the series
and their time in North American history.


On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 at 16:30, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would recommend the Dying Grass, the last Seven Dream installment to be
> published. there's hardly any of the William the Blind distractions where
> WV inserts himself into the narrative in Fathers & Crows, Argall (which I
> couldnt finish), etc.. also its an unsparing look at white racism (subtle
> or not) and brutality balanced with a more realistic portrayal of the Nez
> Perce (warts and all) as human beings not solely seen as martyrs or
> victims.
>
> rich
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 1:55 PM Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
> lorentzen at hotmail.de>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > 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
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> 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 -
> >
> >
> >
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