>betsy said:
> Something About a Soldier isn't intended to be a
memoir of a writer's
life,
> but a bildungsroman, a growing-up-absurd, a rites of
passage story in the
> manner of The Woman in White, Slaughterhouse-5 and a
hundred thousand
others
> in which an innocent someone learns about the
corrupt possibilities of the
> world.
thanks for responding, betty. a bildungs what? ;-)
yes. now that i've read them i know that. when i got the
collected memoirs i thought the first was about his childhood
and the second started with his service and continued thru at
least part of his literary life.
as it was, i was pretty disappointed. from the brilliant
_burnt orange heresy_ to the bland memoirs. didn't hardly
seem like the same author. now there were some good parts in
it, like where he watched the tagalog (sp?) woman give birth.
the "coming of age" thru riding the rails and doing the armed
forces just didn't seem that... important. its not hard to
get a hardboiled view of the world. you can read the papers
and do that.
miker
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