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

[Keith Davis]

This discussion of Vollmann is intriguing. Where to start?

I’ve been into Ursula LeGuin here recently. Really great stuff.

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> On Oct 10, 2018, at 10:43 PM, Jan Devenish <jndvnsh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
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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 -
>>> 
>>> 
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