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vhend1234@aol.com"
vhend1234@aol.com wrote:
<< I don't remember hearing of Jerome Charyn. What's
his style? Any recommendations?
>>
Charyn gets mentioned here every now and then. He's a
postmodernist, started primarily as a literary writer, but
while blocked on a story was hit by awe and inspiration while
reading a Ross MacDonald novel. He then prodded a relative --
a brother, I think?Re: Barry Hannah hunt
-- who was on the police force for info. Afterwards, he
wrote what became known as the Isaac Quartet, BLUE EYES,
MARILYN THE WILD, THE EDUCATION OF PATRICK SILVER, and SECRET
ISAAC -- "Isaac" refers to Isaac Sidel, who moves through the
course of the series (which continued beyond the quartet)
from commissioner to ...what? I can't remember...vice
president? (at Amazon, see this URL:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568582285/102-4596719-5150554?v=glance&n=283155
The postmodern touch is apparent, along with a Jewish
literary tradition of storytelling -- there's an oral
storytelling quality to the narrative, with elements of tall
tales and something I call narrative elision (although I may
be 'way off on that), where reader expectations of types of
details typical in genre writing aren't met -- obvious things
are skipped to suit the storyteller's immediate interest in
where the story should go. Richard Brautigan did something
similar, but Charyn's method is slightly different; the
result is still comic.
It took years of reading Charyn for this stuff to percolate
in my brain, and I'm sure some folks might disagree with me.
But a real understanding of the tradition Charyn works in
came to me after reading some of Isaac Babel's Odessa
stories, particularly those about gangster Benya Krik.
Hope this helps, but I can see how it might confuse...
- Duane Spurlock www.pulprack.com
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