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Through a [Vodka] Glass Darkly

Sunday, September 6th, 2009 08:39 am

Thoughts on finishing The Brothers Karamazov. In which I explain that, although I did not enjoy the novel, I can fully understand why people admire it, and in which I attempt to counter

lidocafe's contention that Dostoevsky is not Postmodern. This may take some time, ( so I will put it behind a cut )

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brisingamen (thank you!!) the The Amazing and Incredible, Only Slightly Laughable, Politically Unassailable, Po Mo English Title Generator

1. David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, and The Disenfranchised: Complicating Ethnocentric Homoerotics
2. Frustration as Fragments: Engendering Promiscuous Theory in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas
3. The Colonial Altering The Alien: David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas and Attraction
4. The Bodies of Problematics and the Oriental in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas
5. Savage Resistance and the Bodies of Anal Complicity in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas

The sad thing is that "only slightly laughable" is, alas, true. I can imagine seeing one or two of those in a conference line-up...

Current Mood: amused