Awesome, awesome. Of course, the books, as described, now beg
to be written. Hrrrmmmma...
>From:
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net (Mark Sullivan)
>Reply-To:
rara-avis@icomm.ca
>To:
rara-avis@icomm.ca
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: James Loftus
>Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 21:29:04 -0400
>
>Don wrote:
>
>"I was trying to find his email address to ask him
about where one might
>look for some of the guy's books, but now I want to
find out for sure if
>it's a hoax or not; if so, it's extremely well
done."
>
>A character in O'Connell's Box Nine frequented a
mystery bookstore. He
>and the guy who owned the store had different taste
in mysteries. One
>liked traditional mysteries, the other hardboiled,
however, neither knew
>what to make of "Deco Noir," a new genre out of
France that was
>basically a series of random acts of violence.
Although I was pretty
>sure that this was a literary in-joke about
postmodernism (especially
>considering the way O'Connell plays with lingistics
and structuralism in
>that book), I started searching for them. I thought
that if they didn't
>exist, they should. I picked up some later
Robbe-Grillet, read a book
>called Cherokee, etc. (I forget the author).
Manchette had not yet been
>translated; I could see him writing something like
that. I even asked
>about the alleged genre on this list once a long time
ago.
>
>Later, O'Connell surprised me with an email thanking
me for some
>comments I had made here praising his work. I figured
this was my
>chance and asked him about Deco Noir. Alas, he
confirmed it was a joke.
>Of course, this is not nearly the same scale as
inventing an author,
>along with bibliography, but proof that O'Connell
will perpetrate
>literary invention.
>
>Mark
>
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