tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post139230555015811801..comments2024-01-06T10:36:04.084-05:00Comments on A Commonplace Blog: 9/11 and the literary fallacyD. G. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10659136455045567825noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-23754357147426006522012-06-18T17:35:15.959-04:002012-06-18T17:35:15.959-04:00Merullo's A Little Love Story (2005) was also ...Merullo's A Little Love Story (2005) was also a 9/11 novel, in that the protagonist's girlfriend was killed on the plane which went down in PA.Richard Kuntzhttp://www.rsg-law.com/our-attorneys/richard-m-kuntz.aspxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-21944812742419436632009-09-13T04:18:30.364-04:002009-09-13T04:18:30.364-04:00Your post is very interesting. I've just read ...Your post is very interesting. I've just read "The falling man", and really liked it. I think that the true subject of the novel is not 9/11, but the fallacy of identity and thinking indeed.<br /><br />Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that the Alzheimer's narrative line is the inner meaning of the novel, not the one about 9/11. And maybe it is not so casual that the only (obviously failing) treatment for it is writing (the writing group of Lianne). The theme of the dissolution of identity is present throughout the book (the Alzheimer, the suicide of Lianne's father, the death of her mother, the sinking of Keith, ...); and maybe it is a biographical one, given the age and the "job" of the autor...<br /><br />I really don't know what the champions of DeLillo say, but from what I've read of his novels (also "Mao II" and "White noise" for now), he seems to me the novelist maybe not of the fallacy of the world, but for sure of our interpretation of it.__M__https://www.blogger.com/profile/01882346048063903566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-5603587261796826012009-09-11T18:29:45.942-04:002009-09-11T18:29:45.942-04:00Ah, yes, of course. However, this humble gentile (...Ah, yes, of course. However, this humble gentile (without any knowledge of Hebrew) would, of course, be at a tremendous disadvantage. Perhaps I'll nave to content myself with the JPS English-edition of the Tanakh.<br /><br />Have a good weekend.R/Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07791522136032565027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-22250186456827959302009-09-11T18:18:57.581-04:002009-09-11T18:18:57.581-04:00The Talmud.The Talmud.D. G. Myershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10659136455045567825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-17031042260062017802009-09-11T17:26:20.457-04:002009-09-11T17:26:20.457-04:00Thanks for the tips.
I read Updike's novel but...Thanks for the tips.<br />I read Updike's novel but did not care for it though I now cannot remember all of the reasons. (My memory has become so terrible that I ought to restrict myself to reading only one book; I could read it again each week and remain convinced that I was reading something new and different each time. That is only barely an exaggeration.)<br />I will have to give the Wright a try. (Perhaps it could be the one book for repeated, "new" readings, though I should probably commit to something else when my memory really matches up to my hyperbole. Any suggestions? I'm thinking either the Bible or Proust.)R/Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07791522136032565027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-65940908683864154552009-09-11T17:19:14.834-04:002009-09-11T17:19:14.834-04:00Updike tried this, not altogether successfully, in...Updike tried this, not altogether successfully, in <i>Terrorist</i> (2006). Far better is Lawrence Wright’s <i>Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11</i> from the same year.D. G. Myershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10659136455045567825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-37856343053159685922009-09-11T17:00:59.186-04:002009-09-11T17:00:59.186-04:00Consider this: the 9/11 novel that ought to be wri...Consider this: the 9/11 novel that ought to be written should be from the point of view of the "other side." Certainly there must be someone out there who is daring enough to attempt a work in which the terrorists become the "protagonists." Of course, that invites questions: would such a novel be published? Read? Embraced? <br /><br />While there is some literary precedent for a novel in which the villain(s) are the main focus, perhaps our cultural, political, and literary climate in the politically correct West has changed too much to permit such a novel now.R/Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07791522136032565027noreply@blogger.com