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It could be argued that rather than evading history, these feverish texts confronted it. Or take Faulkner, who, the day after the stock market panic in , pulled a sheet of paper from his pocket and scrawled a title in the right-hand corner — As I Lay Dying. But Kerouac was accumulating writing on the road for years before stitching together his final manuscript.
And Fahrenheit was the culmination of five short stories that Bradbury had been working on for three years. As I Lay Dying was not only a title that Faulkner had tried twice before for earlier works, but the story itself was arguably an outgrowth of an unfinished manuscript, Father Abraham, that Faulkner abandoned in But juxtaposing works that were supposedly produced in a panic with some of the long haul endeavors exposes the complex circumstances that surround all artistic creations and the ways that process, be it short or long, can be romanticized and mythologized.
Artists procrastinate. They also persist. What is certain is that we carry ideas around for longer than we know, and part of the artistic venture is unearthing the source. And so the entrance to this book is hidden. During the difficult stretches, Gaddis may have considered his manuscript the invalid in the next room. But in his correspondence, it is evident that when Gaddis was able to fully engage his writing, he experienced complete affinity with the novel. He had spent them with an year-old boy, which is precisely why his novel was able to challenge the stultified adult vocabularies about money markets, educational bureaucracies, and publishing monopolies.
Does the long haul pay off? Probably not. Maybe there is no real redemption, but redemption is an old gospel that has been repurposed by slot machines and a culturally constructed nostalgia telling you to Redeem your cash-voucher…Redeem your past. It has to be about something else now. It takes figuring out what Time can mean in the first place, before it is dispensed to us, defined for us. They found that place where time does not flow in one direction, where memories and imaginings fold on to one another, where past, present, and future all become equally accessible.
Moby-Dick is a quintessential Great American Novel, perhaps even the greatest , but it might not be pure fiction. Invention or not, at least we can be thankful no cannibalism sneaked its way onto the Pequod…. Ester Bloom suspects all three are in the closet. Leave it to the astrologers to forecast unusual cosmological events for the coming months. The Rehearsal opened a disturbing window onto manipulative adults and adolescents snaking around each other in a music school.
In addition to an uncomfortable set of relationships, the disturbance was fueled by lack of names, major characters, and place. If The Rehearsal was an edgy and inventive debut, The Luminaries is a virtuoso performance. Enter the thirteenth man, Walter Moody, just off the boat from England. The organizing principle for The Luminaries is the Zodiac. Put simplistically, the greater and lesser light of the sun and moon represent the twin poles of man and woman and their array of accompanying characteristics.
Each of the many characters is assigned an astrological identity that cycles through the novel. The major sections of the book begin with an illustrated chart of the Zodiac, including symbols and positioning.
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Catton waxes lyrical in her physical descriptions. But the genius of The Luminaries resides in its structure. The novel generates an unusual and unique rhythm. The setup occurs over a sprawling three-hundred-sixty pages. By this point, the reader is luxuriating in a state of agreeable confusion, curious and eager to read on. The twenty pages of summary are useful, but they could never substitute for such a grand exposition.
Chapter titles reference the Zodiac and are followed by short, italicized summations. Part One may be the length of most novels, but Part Twelve takes a mere two pages. Even the cleverest literary sleuth may fail to solve the whole puzzle until the end. This is the stuff of life in all its unpredictability: mistaken assumptions; arrogant presumption; substance over surface; truth and consequences; and, ultimately, good versus evil.
Steeped in history, The Luminaries feels completely fresh. Contemporary American writers increasingly decline the sweeping range and flow of the past tense. The resulting language compacts into ever-shrinking pages, serving up clipped sentences written in present tense.
By contrast, The Luminaries takes its leisurely time roaming the past tense, developing an intricate and complex plot. From whence has Catton sprung? Unfortunately, precious few New Zealand writers reach American shores.
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Perhaps Katherine Mansfield is best known to U. In Mr. Allbones, Farrell explores the burgeoning scientific understanding of evolution in the time of Charles Darwin, while Kiwi writer Emily Perkins uses nature differently in The Forrests — to examine a contemporary family in dissolution. Her literary ancestry derives less from her homeland and more from the British and American giants of the nineteenth century.
Catton deserves their company. Like George Eliot, Catton looks behind the stereotype of the whore and the opium dealer and forces us to question where the real morality lies. Catton deploys daunting technique, yes. The love story is simply an added pleasure. All that, and Eleanor Catton is still on the nearside of thirty. Small wonder that The Luminaries has been nominated for the Booker Prize.
No matter the outcome, the literary firmament has birthed a new star. The Great American Novel is the great superlative of American life. The novel is grand, ambitious, limitless in its imagined possibility. It strains towards the idea that all of life may be captured in a story, just as we strain through history to make self-evident truths real on earth. We asked nine English scholars to choose one novel as the greatest our country has ever produced.
But they took their assignments seriously anyway. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. That racist propaganda? A land defined and challenged by racism, America struggles with how to understand and move beyond its history.
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Censor it? Deny it? Rewrite it? Ignore it? Twain confronts American history head-on and tells us this: White people are the problem. That is the real end. The rest is just cheating.
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Huck does so to keep himself out of jail and to save Jim, sure. But he also does so because Tom tells him he must. If the Great American Novel both perceptively reflects its time and challenges Americans to do better, Huck Finn deserves the title. Rendering trenchant critiques on every manifestation of whiteness, Twain reminds us that solving racism requires whites to change. The Ambassadors.
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The Ambassadors is famously difficult, so much so that the critic Ian Watt once wrote an entire essay about its opening paragraph. And although Strether, like Huck and Holden and countless other American heroes, is an innocent abroad, he is middle-aged — closer in years to Herzog and Rabbit than Nick or Janie. But then there really is no-one like Strether. For Strether has imagination, perhaps more imagination than any American protagonist before or since. Newsome, to bring her son home to Massachusetts — is first deceived, then admonished, and finally betrayed.
It twinkled and trembled and melted together, and what seemed all surface one moment seemed all depth the next.
Yet the only way it makes sense to say that Strether has not had his life is if we think of him as having given his life to us — his perceptions, his humor, his sense of possibility. What other life could one want?
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