tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post9067572613634570689..comments2024-03-18T16:55:31.971+00:00Comments on This Space: "Mixing Genres": Polito's ListStephen Mitchelmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658772259307446873noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-1535307273732168962008-10-16T12:47:00.000+01:002008-10-16T12:47:00.000+01:00I'm not sure that he'd fit Polito's li...I'm not sure that he'd fit Polito's list- I think he probably manages to piss nearly everyone off, such as the Russian literati cognescenti(?), but Victor Pelevin at his best is kind of all over the place- with sometimes the most thrilling of essayistic tangents. From his long short-story The Yellow Arrow:<BR/>"Watching the hot sunlight falling on the tablecloth covered with sticky blotches & crumbs, Andrei was struck by the thought of what a genuine tragedy it was for millions of light rays to set out on their journey from the surface of the sun, go hurtling through the infinite void of space and pierce the kilometres thick sky of Earth, only to be extinguished in the revolting remains of yesterday's soup. Maybe these yellow arrows slanting in through the window were conscious, hoped for something better- and realised their hope was groundless, giving them all the necessary ingredients for suffering."Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11708539533684206357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-32131918758273498192008-10-14T15:50:00.000+01:002008-10-14T15:50:00.000+01:00Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds; David Markson's...Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds; David Markson's This Is Not a Novel; "sudden fictions" by Lydia Davis and Robert Kelly; Georges Perec's Life: A User's Manual and Species of Spaces; pretty much anything by Michel Leiris or Raymond Queneau...Charlotte Mandellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10308707744702758011noreply@blogger.com