Robert Coover R.I.P

[rich]

If Origin of the Brunists has AtD vibes (albeit tangential), the book's
sequel, The Brunist Day of Wrath (over 1,000 pages) definitely has Blood
Meridian vibes, though with humor.

I think the things that binds Coover and Pynchon is their, for lack of a
better word, zany-ness without losing any weight or seriousness throughout
their career (a fault much found with other post-modernists who also
exhibit what I find to be too much of a whiff of the academy).

I once sent him a letter of appreciation and he kindly send me a response
when he was finishing up The Adventures of Lucky Pierre (a personal
favorite) and I asked him about it.

PS: TRP with bag over head showed up for a few seconds (no speaking part)
in the Simpson's series 36 opener, Bart's Birthday, a clip show and parody
of series finale episodes of yesteryear


On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 10:43 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I bet TRP did....
>
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 2:32 AM matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Howdy,
> >
> > So, way back in the 90's while at university studying literature the
> > term "postmodern" had grown to a massive hum intoned by its integrants
> > and acolytes. I thought I should sit a course on the subject:
> > Postmodern Literature. The young professor informed us on the first
> > day that the "old white guys" were over-represented in the genre and
> > that she would focus on other authors. So we got "The Female Man" by
> > Joanna Russ and "Dictee" by Theresa Kyung Cha. But no old white guys.
> > No Pynchon or Barth or Gaddis. But most shockingly, in hindsight, no
> > Robert Coover. Now, I say that because I was at Southern Illinois
> > University (where Coover had studied), just about an hour away from
> > where the mine disaster occurred in 1951 on which Coover based his
> > first book. I could add that Washington University was less than 3
> > hours away where William Gass was teaching and Gaddis had taught.
> >
> > Only with time and perspective do we realize how education has failed
> > us. Correcting course is not easy.
> >
> > I wonder if Pynchon has read The Origin of the Brunists. It does seem
> > to have some tie-ins with AtD.
> >
> > ciao
> > mc
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