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Mulligan Stew and Gilbert Sorrentino's aesthetics of failure: an introduction
Ist Teil von
The Review of contemporary fiction, 2011-06, Vol.31 (2), p.13
Ort / Verlag
Normal: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Erscheinungsjahr
2011
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Quelle
Literature Online (LION)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The mulligan in all its forms functions as an apt metaphor for writer Gilbert Sorrentino's oevre, in that his writing forages for available materials, finds more interest in the mundane than the highfalutin, makes rejection a form of acceptance, and dejection a kind of beauty. Whereas James Joyce elevates his novel to high modernist status, Sorrentino's 1979 novel Mulligan Stew--rife with its own set of allusions--opens with a series of rejection letters. Here, Sobelle analyzes the allusions and confessed ambitions in the novel and tries to decipher what it's trying to convey.