RE: RARA-AVIS: postmodern noir

Andy Hughes (AHughes@sbtinfo.com)
Wed, 3 Dec 1997 09:19:53 -0500 To add to the pre-Auster postmodern books, there is Georges Perec's "A
Void." Released in French in 1969, it was translated into English in
1994.

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>From: Joshua B Lukin[SMTP:jblukin@acsu.buffalo.edu]
>Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 1997 11:05 PM
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>Subject: RARA-AVIS: postmodern noir
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>Here are some of what I regard as key pre-Auster works with postmodern
>noir agendas.
>Thomas Pynchon: "The Crying of Lot 49." possibly "V."
>Patricia Highsmith: "The Tremor of Forgery"
>Philip K. Dick: two cop novels, "Flow My Tears the Policeman Said" and "A
>Scanner Darkly"
>Leonardo Sciascia, a great "doomed-detective" novelist whom nobody seems
>to have mentioned: "Equal Danger" and "To Each His Own"
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>Let's reopen the discussion.
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