NP but Rushdie on Vonnegut

[Mark Kohut]

Then there's ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT.....Primo Levi.....The Naked &
The Dead....and others in the 'naturalistic' [best] American tradition...
The Red Badge of Courage.......and others....

Rushdie worrying his own fiction out, I'd suggest.

And tell me how *Elizabeth Costello* tackles this?.....

I have read it and about it yet can't quite place that......

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 7:53 AM Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

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> https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/what-kurt-vonneguts-slaughterhouse-five-tells-us-now
>
>
> Amongst many other interesting observations -- the Vonnegutian origin of a
> key event in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", for example --
> Rushdie
> in passing addresses a question which is relevant to Pynchon and has also
> been tackled by Coetzee in "Elizabeth Costello":
>
> "One of the great questions that faces all writers who have to deal with
> atrocity is, is it possible to do it? Are there things so powerful, so
> dreadful, that they are beyond the power of literature to describe? Every
> writer who faced the challenge of writing about the Second World War—and
> the
> Vietnam War, in fact—has had to think about that question. All of them
> decided they needed to come at the atrocity at an angle, so to speak, not
> to
> face it head on, because to do that would be unbearable."
>
>
>
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