Jim, I'd be curious what you think of Ghosh's Great Derangement. He's an example of an author you're describing, and yet he insists quite forcefully on the genre's limitations.
Thank you! Yes, Maybe one day soon I'll talk more about them. I have a very short essay somewhere on Cusk's Outline trilogy, which is cut from the same cloth as the Ginzburg--I'll try to find it.
Random thoughts:
-Walker Percy as the antiFaulkner?
-in the best novels the filler is the texture in the paint
-agree the impact of the novel declined in the US, but it has thrived in other countries and in immigrant and indigenous communities here
Jim, I'd be curious what you think of Ghosh's Great Derangement. He's an example of an author you're describing, and yet he insists quite forcefully on the genre's limitations.
I'd love to know the rest of your short list!
Thank you! Yes, Maybe one day soon I'll talk more about them. I have a very short essay somewhere on Cusk's Outline trilogy, which is cut from the same cloth as the Ginzburg--I'll try to find it.
Wonderful.