70s was also my guess. I'm sure you're right.
As for the advice about reading in order - this may be easier
said than done in the UK. Might have to go down to Murder
One's second hand section? Or find my old British Library
card? And I'm afraid that one of the things that grabbed me
was the whole business of the literary/aesthetic references.
I fear that Sallis and I had the same kind of postgraduate
training.
And the 2000-calorie sandwich - no surprise there. Thanks,
everyone.
Marianne Macdonald
On Tuesday, June 8, 2004, at 08:00 am, RARA-AVIS Digest
wrote:
> "Bluebottle" should be the early 70s I think.
However beware, as all
> along the series Sallis mixes remembrances and facts
originated in
> previous periods of Griffin's life, and as you may
have noticed it, the
> story does not have a linear flow, far from
it.
> On top of everything Sallis put here and there clues
or fuzzed facts
> that could be (IMHO) decoded as a postmodern spiel
about narrator,
> writer and fiction.
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