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From: Thomas R. Walker <trw3@midway.uchicago.edu>
> From: Mary Krimmel <mary.krimmel@fanciful.org>
> -> To return to a subject that was brought up a while back, invented
> artists ...
>
> I understood that someone made a list of invented artists wherever
> found, not just in VN. If so, is that list available? Where?
>
Salman Rushdie includes a list like this in his new novel, with
the conceit that they are the real artists in his novel's world. To quote:
"Nathan Zuckerman's 'Carnovsky', science fiction by Kilgore Trout, a
playscript - 'Von Trenck' - by Charlie Citrine... the poetry of John
Shade. Also Europeans: Dedalus, Matzerath. The one and only 'Don Quixote'
by Pierre Menard. F. Alexander's 'A Clockwork Orange'." No Quilty or
Darkbloom, unless they're hidden in the ellipses (which are not mine - I'm
actually lifting this quotation from James Wood's review of the novel in
"The New Republic", Apr 26 & May 3).
That "one and only" is a bit too cute, no?
Tom Walker
University of Chicago
Dept of Economics
Chicago, IL 60615
> From: Mary Krimmel <mary.krimmel@fanciful.org>
> -> To return to a subject that was brought up a while back, invented
> artists ...
>
> I understood that someone made a list of invented artists wherever
> found, not just in VN. If so, is that list available? Where?
>
Salman Rushdie includes a list like this in his new novel, with
the conceit that they are the real artists in his novel's world. To quote:
"Nathan Zuckerman's 'Carnovsky', science fiction by Kilgore Trout, a
playscript - 'Von Trenck' - by Charlie Citrine... the poetry of John
Shade. Also Europeans: Dedalus, Matzerath. The one and only 'Don Quixote'
by Pierre Menard. F. Alexander's 'A Clockwork Orange'." No Quilty or
Darkbloom, unless they're hidden in the ellipses (which are not mine - I'm
actually lifting this quotation from James Wood's review of the novel in
"The New Republic", Apr 26 & May 3).
That "one and only" is a bit too cute, no?
Tom Walker
University of Chicago
Dept of Economics
Chicago, IL 60615