Not P. Cormac

[rich]

Better to go the way of John Banville with his late writing progressing via
three strands of works: the literary stuff inheritors of his earlier work
around science (Copernicus Kepler Newton), crime (Book of Evidence Ghosts
and Athena), art (Eclipse Shroud and Ancient Light) and politics (The
Untouchable); the dublin hard core Quirke pathologist mysteries originally
published under name of Benjamin Black (now publishing under Banville's
real name--the latest Snow and April in Spain are fantastic, featuring
Strafford a detective, a colleague of Quirke's); and now these
mythological, hard to pin down saturated pieces which link lightly to some
of the earlier works (the earlier Infinities and a new work the
Singularities which is being published next week as well). The quality of
the writing despite the widely different settings and tone are top notch.
Banville seems to be able to change and stay the same at the same time,
which if you like his writing is both refreshing and reassuring at the same
time, too

rich

rich

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 2:55 PM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> see also Hemingway's The Garden of Eden (not entirely fair because he
> didn't finish it, but still)
>
> or, and dare I say this? (sure, because it might start an interesting
> argument!), Pynchon after Against the Day... (or maybe after M&D?!)
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 2:10 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The reviewer does make it feel as if McCarthy has jumped the shark with
> > this one. And his observation that when McCarthy focuses on the
> day-to-day
> > life and interactions of Western, the main character, that real
> > profundities emerge, does ring true.
> >
> > I don’t know if it’s applicable here, but the architect Frank Loyd Wright
> > was an undeniable genius,and his work anticipated avant-garde modernism,
> > which was to follow and supersede his work from across the shore in
> > Europe.  But Frank Loyd Wright’s work during his senior years was far
> from
> > genius.  in fact,  some of it is just schlocky.
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 3:30 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I think the reviewer, whom I know, likes old-fashioned "life and life
> only
> >> fiction" basically....that remark about Melville for example...
> >>
> >> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 2:36 PM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > So this will be his "Ratner's Star"?
> >> >
> >> > it's too bad they gave the book to a grumpy reviewer. of course after
> a
> >> > huge career there's an (inevitable?) slide in to what seems to younger
> >> > readers like self parody
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 6:20 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/10/18/cormac-mccarthy-novel-passenger/
> >> >> --
> >> >> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> --
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> >>
> >
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