Louis-Ferdinand Céline's influence on North American writers makes for a fascinating case study in literary influence. Is Céline a "strong poet" whose anxiety of influence has been felt on this side...previous work on Céline includes Sources et citations dans "Bagatelles pour un massacre" (1987) and a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, coedited with Philippe Roussin, "Céline, USA" (1994).
Louis-Ferdinand Céline's influence on North American writers makes for a fascinating case study in literary influence. Is Céline a "strong poet" whose anxiety of influence has been felt on this side...previous work on Céline includes Sources et citations dans "Bagatelles pour un massacre" (1987) and a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, coedited with Philippe Roussin, "Céline, USA" (1994).
Louis-Ferdinand Céline's influence on North American writers makes for a fascinating case study in literary influence. Is Céline a "strong poet" whose anxiety of influence has been felt on this side... Alice Kaplan, " The Céline Effect: A 1992 Survey of Contemporary American Writers." From Modernism/modernity. Volume 3, Number 1, January 1996, pp. 117-136.
...and my ideas are going to become more and more unimportant. There’s something going on which I don’t think I understand anymore, and I used to have a confidence that I understood the times better... In the alternatives of doing the necessary or nothing, I prefer nothing if the necessary is unpalatable. More of Norman Mailer’s lettersappear on The New Yorker ’s Web site .
"These are not our faces. "This is not what we like. "You think Gene Wolfe looks like his photograph in this book? Or Jane Yolen? Or Peter Straub? Or Diana Wynne Jones? Not so. They are wearing play...-Maya Angelou "If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. "It is an unnecessary insult." --Maya Angelo
I couldn't wait. I'm a bad human being. Don DeLillo's Ratner's Star ($0.96) Don DeLillo's Valparaiso : A Play ($0.12) Will Self's Cock and Bull ($0.02) William Gibson's Spook Country ($1.55...Lewis. But I limited my purchases to the above four. Even at $3.99 shipping per book I'm still getting a good price. Not like I have a shortage of books. Or a surplus of disposable income.
Thomas Pynchon and The Crying of Lot 49 : http://www.jstor.org.ezphost.dur.ac.uk/stable/1207849?&Search=yes&term=49&term=lot&term=crying&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dthe%2Bcrying%2Bof%2Blot%2B49%26wc%3Don&item...&Search=yes&term=49&term=lot&term=crying&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dthe%2Bcrying%2Bof%2Blot%2B49%26wc%3Don&item=13&ttl=2648&returnArticleService=showArticle
A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now. It is too late. The Evacuation still proceeds, but it’s all theatre...as half-silvered images in a view finder, green-stained VIP faces remembered behind bulletproof windows speeding through the city.... — Thomas Pynchon , Gravity’s Rainbow
I am not doing okay. SINCE SEPTEMBER 1, 2007 1. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand 2. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway 3. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque 4. I, Robot, Isaac Asimov 5. The... I love the Hamlet and Lolita allusions, by the way. I want to read this book again in a few months and see if it still makes me uncomfortable. I want a Trystero tattoo. Or at least a necklace.
