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Author Archives: susan
LITERATURE: Alias Grace – Narrative Structure
Perhaps because I just finished Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist I find this comparison with Atwood’s Alias Grace: the opening is in the present, getting us immediately involved in the characters. Both writers use as their next step a device … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Alias Grace – Atwood
I’m pleasantly surprised by this novel, realized that I’m reading it much faster than Marquez’s Solitude which I thoroughly enjoyed plodding through even though it stopped me every other page with fascinating writing, metaphors and concepts. And faster than DeLillo’s … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Alias Grace- The Story
Just thirty pages in and struck by Atwood’s manipulation of story, one based on a murder purportedly committed by then sixteen year-old Grace Marks of her employer Mr. Kinnear and his housekeeper/mistress Nancy Montgomery. Magic in the opening lines: Out … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Alias Grace
It looks like Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace has won out; a scan of the back cover that offers murder and mystery, coupled with my own liking of Atwood’s short stories, and that it has had such rave reviews from anyone … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Body Artist – The REAL Wrap-up
So I pick the book back up off the top of the "Read" pile (Read as in red, not as reed, which pile is still ten times as large) and head to the garage, first flicking the lightswitch on and … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Body Artist – Wrap-up
Damn. I just lost the final wrap-up post on The Body Artist and I’m in no mood to do it all over again from scratch. I pressed "enter" instead of "save". But since I want to get this monkey off … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Body Artist – Perspective Counts
Before I get to a final conclusion on Don DiLillo’s The Body Artist, I must make it clear that while I was not thrilled with this book, it is one I am holding onto for another read someday. Whether it … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Body Artist
Well, maybe because I worked a standing fifteen-hour shift yesterday, but when I came in and finished this book I was reading it hard and heavy with the idea of getting it done. So maybe that’s why I’m less than … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Body Artist – Character
As I had mentioned, the little man has little character, and the harder I want to believe in an ethereal, not-of-this world meaning to him, the harder it becomes to believe. Same thing with Lauren, who I totally related to … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Body Artist – Reading Into It
Even though I often change my mind as I read through a book, I sort of like posting my impressions as I go along rather than the usual review given after completing the reading. As in my month-long reading of … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Body Artist – Metaphor and Simile
First of all, it has become obvious that all of the clutter of routine detailed in the first chapter does indeed come back, perhaps as a symbol of continuity. The birds at the feeder, Lauren’s tendency to place herself within … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The Body Artist – Word Cues
In the first chapter which followed Lauren and Rey around their kitchen and morning breakfast routine, DeLillo took pains to be specifically mundane in their routine, yet so detailed as to be almost aggravatingly boring. Unfortunately, if one gave in … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Body Artist – Even More on Verisimilitude
DeLillo pushes the point on this, but we’re not left to our own devices except to decide the reliability of the narrator and the protagonist. After her husband (Rey)’s death, Lauren finds a strange little man in one of the … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE and WRITING: More on Verisimilitude
In morning light I find myself thinking more on the idea of verisimilitude, how the line is seen by the writer in consideration of the reader. The term, I believe, means more about appearing to be reality than actual reality. … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The Body Artist – Beyond Verisimilitude
I intend to more fully explain this new character, a strange little man who may not be a ghost who Lauren has found in an upstairs bedroom. But I do want to read a bit further first. But this seemed … Continue reading Continue reading
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