Requiem (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))

By White, Curtis

Publishers Summary:
In this tragicomic novel, Curtis White creates an American landscape that is at once familiar and strange, a "pornographic" culture in which the sterility of sex and death signal a more fundamental epidemic: the loss of what it means to be human. Told through a collage that includes letters-to-the-editor, an e-mail correspondence with an internet porn queen, biographies of classical musicians, NPR interviews, and retellings of Bible stories--REQUIEM is an artistic and intellectual tour de force from one of this country's funniest and most earnest commentators on contemporary culture.

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978-1-56478-308-0
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press


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Reviewed on December 1, 2001

Imagine a cross between David Markson and Milan Kundera, and you have White, author of the acclaimed Memories of My Father Watching TV. His latest is a loopy postmodern "novel" of epic reach and encyclopedic method. Assembled from e-mails, letters to the editor, interview transcripts, and other ephemera, Requiem tackles the themes of art, death, and the spirit, suggesting that a transhuman...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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