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at the date posted:I'm reading Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor right now (the recent Dalkey reprint with a nice black-and-white hummingbird watercolor on the cover). I just looked at an excerpt from Chimera and I'm completely blown away by how radically different the style is. He really expertly imitates the late-Restoration British style (think, I dunno, Laurence Sterne) in Sot-Weed, and I'm a bit shocked that the same guy could have written both of these. Great avatar. I'm surprised, but not, that so many books that I have read are considered post-modern. When I was an English Literature major I was taught that Chinua Achebe was the first post-modernist writer but that A Passage to India could arguably be considered post-modern. That was about fifteen years ago, mind you. Some of the books I've started to read but cannot finish include The Sot Weed Factor, Gravity's Rainbow, and Infinite Jest. The former two because  and the latter because it sends me into crippling depression. I've gotten several hundred pages in at least four times and literally had suicidal urges, so I've accepted that I just can't finish it. I've read almost everything else DFW has written, though. How about Cormac McCarthy? Blood Meridian is Biblical. It's as great a novel as Moby Dick, in my experience. e: \/\/\/ the last time I tried to read Infinite Jest was before PK was published, and I'd forgotten about it - haven't gotten around to it. Huggybear fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Mar 14, 2017 |
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