[Picked up MOBILE by Michel Butor from the "new books" shelf
at Paley Library this past Saturday.]
from
http://www.centerforbookculture.org/dalkey/backlist/butor.ht
ml :
Considered by many to be his greatest book, Michel Butor's
Mobile [first published in 1962] is the result of the six
months the author spent traveling across America. The text
is composed from a wide range of materials, including city
names, road signs, advertising slogans, catalog listings,
newspaper accounts of the 1893 World's Fair, Native American
writings, and the history of the "Freedomland" theme park.
Butor weaves bits and pieces from these diverse sources into
a collage resembling an abstract paining (the book is
dedicated to Jackson Pollack) or a patchwork quilt that by
turns is both humorous and quite disturbing. This
"travelogue" captures--in both a textual and visual way--the
energy and contradictions of American life and history.
"A gifted disciple of French anti-novelist Alain
Robbe-Grillet, Butor is notable because he uses a different
technique with every book and turns out intense and
interesting fiction just the same."--Time
"Mobile is not only a memorable experience, accomplishing
that rich task of all true art--providing the reader with
new eyes--but it is also work which fellow writers and
artists can profit from because it supplies the best of all
ingredients: stimulation."--New York Herald Tribune
"With a lexicographer's zest for words, Butor . . . captures
the tone of American clichés, suggests an almost dizzying
sense of space and variety, and brings into ironic
juxtaposition elements of primitiveness and sophistication
that are part of the American myth."--New York Times
[In some ways this book reminds me of Otto's post-lobotomy
schizophrenic writing from the 1980s, which some of you
might remember reading samples of within schizophrenia +
architectures at www.quondam.com 1999.]
Since when did www.mapquest.com stop offering color aerial
photos along with their maps?
[Is THE ODDS OF OTTOPIA actually by Auntie Rita Novel?]
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at Paley Library this past Saturday.]
from
http://www.centerforbookculture.org/dalkey/backlist/butor.ht
ml :
Considered by many to be his greatest book, Michel Butor's
Mobile [first published in 1962] is the result of the six
months the author spent traveling across America. The text
is composed from a wide range of materials, including city
names, road signs, advertising slogans, catalog listings,
newspaper accounts of the 1893 World's Fair, Native American
writings, and the history of the "Freedomland" theme park.
Butor weaves bits and pieces from these diverse sources into
a collage resembling an abstract paining (the book is
dedicated to Jackson Pollack) or a patchwork quilt that by
turns is both humorous and quite disturbing. This
"travelogue" captures--in both a textual and visual way--the
energy and contradictions of American life and history.
"A gifted disciple of French anti-novelist Alain
Robbe-Grillet, Butor is notable because he uses a different
technique with every book and turns out intense and
interesting fiction just the same."--Time
"Mobile is not only a memorable experience, accomplishing
that rich task of all true art--providing the reader with
new eyes--but it is also work which fellow writers and
artists can profit from because it supplies the best of all
ingredients: stimulation."--New York Herald Tribune
"With a lexicographer's zest for words, Butor . . . captures
the tone of American clichés, suggests an almost dizzying
sense of space and variety, and brings into ironic
juxtaposition elements of primitiveness and sophistication
that are part of the American myth."--New York Times
[In some ways this book reminds me of Otto's post-lobotomy
schizophrenic writing from the 1980s, which some of you
might remember reading samples of within schizophrenia +
architectures at www.quondam.com 1999.]
Since when did www.mapquest.com stop offering color aerial
photos along with their maps?
[Is THE ODDS OF OTTOPIA actually by Auntie Rita Novel?]
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