The Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem

Author:Jonathan Lethem
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction, Essays, Literary Criticism, Literary Collections, General
ISBN: 9780307428400
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2005-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The world doesn’t need another introduction to or apologia for Philip K. Dick. There’ve been plenty. I’ve committed a few myself already. Between his hipster canonization, the frequency of academic and newspaper pundit citation, and the endless flow of Hollywood adaptations of his novels and stories, nobody much needs persuasion that Dick is some kind of important figure. Anyone who’s taken the hint and cracked one of the books also knows he’s many kinds of problematic—foremost in the disastrous unevenness of his prose, even within the space of a given page. He’s that species of great writer, the uneven-prose species: Dickens, Dreiser, and Highsmith are others. Russians will tell you Dostoyevsky is too, and that we don’t know this because translators have been covering his ass. Dick’s ass, though, is uncoverable. His sentences routinely fall down and cry “ouch.” In the words of Bob Dylan, another prolific and variable artist whose oeuvre offers pitfalls for newcomers, “I’m in love with the ugliest girl in the world!”

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