Textermination
A Fiction, Novels, British Literature book. Dear friends & fellow characters, you all know the importance we attach to...
In her latest novel, Textermination, the eminent British novelist/critic Christine Brooke-Rose pulls a wide array of characters out of the great works of literature and drops them into the middle of the San Francisco Hilton. Emma Bovary, Emma Woodhouse, Captain Ahab, Odysseus, Huck Finn... all are gathered for the Annual Convention of Prayer for Being, to meet, to discuss, to pray for their continued existence in the mind of the modern reader. But what begins as a grand enterprise erupts into total pandemonium: with characters from different times, places, and genres all battling for respect and asserting their own hard-won fame and reputations. Dealing with such topical literary issues as deconstruction, multiculturalism, and the Salman Rushdie affair, this wild and humorous satire pokes fun at the academy and ultimately brings into question the value of determining a literary canon at all.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 190 pages
- ISBN: 9780811212168 / 811212165
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How strange. The power of the spirit over the permanence of celluloid. A fantasy, fixed in time yet fleeting. The spirit. He pauses & nods perceptibly. The Spirit is the Reader. What the reader constructs is the Other, & the Other is contained in his flight, the definition of the Other is flight. To fix the Other is to lose him, to let him flee & grow is to keep him. Christine Brooke-Rose, Textermination // Dear friends & fellow characters, you all know the importance we attach to the power of collective prayer in this our desperate struggle for survival. Some of us have more existence than others, at various times according to fashion. But even this is becoming extremely shadowy & precarious, for we are not read, & when read , we are read badly, we are not lived as we used to be, we are not identified with & fantasized, we are rapidly forgotten. Those of us who have the good fortune to be read by teachers, scholars, & students are not read as we used to...
It's extremely clever and I felt smart when I understood the literary references and puns. A lot of dialogue is written in foreign languages, which heavily taxed my mediocre French, poor Spanish, and atrocious German. The meta is very meta. The obscure is very obscure. Christene Brooke-Rose takes us on an ebullient, romp as she invites us into a literary convention. The convention, held at the San Francisco Hilton Hotel, is attended by literary, historical, and film characters of the past. These conventions have been held in San Francisco before but have been thought of as kooky by the general population.Inside... Anglophiles, readers of great literature, and those that have begun their journey on the path to reading more great literature, I implore you to read Textermination. Far too many books, characters, and authors have been forgotten by readers over the years and end up being covered in dust sitting in the back of used bookstores waiting...
