Gass Pain
"If a worm cries out, will Rilke hear him? Or squash him?"
A humorous and informative hypertext essay analyzing William H. Gass's novel, "The Tunnel." The essay also discusses postmodern & experimental fiction. Published online at Center for Book Culture (www.centerforbookcutlure.org), one of the best online resources about contemporary fiction and its authors. EXCERPT: "First, I’d like to take this opportunity to say: Critical theory bores me. It bores me in the same way I’m bored with the lover who wastes a perfectly good and mindless afterglow analyzing the sex we just had (or rather, I had while he had an out-of-body experience during which his mental vapor sat in a chair on the opposite side of the room taking notes). "Barthes!" is what I bark at my neighbor’s bloodthirsty Rottweiler. And "Derrida" is the lullaby with which I sing to my nephew to sleep..." |
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