Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 21:21:10 +0000 From: Chris <christopher.mcmahon-AT-jcu.edu.au> Subject: Re: Valis This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Dear Aden, I have to disagree about the writing style and characterizations of PKD. They are not 'good' in a conventional lit crit sense sense. They have their own mad brilliance. The ideas and the powerful affects of PKD could not op without this style. The novels - on page 1 - seem too sipmplistic, too pulp, not psychorealistic. But by page 30 you are convinced by the accuracy of the characterisations, which never become psychorealistic, always remain sort of grotesque, sort of confessional, sort of sentimental, and sort of cynical. From here, you will confront paranoia, envy, passional idiocy, desubjectivisation, resubjectivisation, cartoon postmodernity, suffering, justice and mercy...... by page 100 (if the novel lasts that long), you might encounter the terrible beauty of PKD's style. Oh, and S......... A Scanner Darkly is probably the best PKD novel ever! - Chris
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I have to disagree about the writing style and characterizations of
PKD. They are not 'good' in a conventional lit crit sense sense. They have
their own mad brilliance. The ideas and the powerful affects of PKD could
not op without this style. The novels - on page 1 - seem too sipmplistic,
too pulp, not psychorealistic. But by page 30 you are convinced by the
accuracy of the characterisations, which never become psychorealistic,
always remain sort of grotesque, sort of confessional, sort of sentimental,
and sort of cynical. From here, you will confront paranoia, envy, passional
idiocy, desubjectivisation, resubjectivisation, cartoon postmodernity,
suffering, justice and mercy...... by page 100 (if the novel lasts that
long), you might encounter the terrible beauty of PKD's style.
Oh, and S......... A Scanner Darkly is probably the best PKD novel ever!
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