Status
Checked out
Due Aug 19, 2021
Publication
Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House, [2008].
Description
In a jet-black satire based on a real-life scandal, the leading writer in a school of literary criticism that says authors are meaningless-dead-is discovered to have been a Nazi. Gilbert Adair is the author of Love and Death on Long Island and the screenplay for Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers,
User reviews
LibraryThing member giovannigf
Hopefully the title doesn't scare away the anti-post-modernist faction, because this novella is a terrific satire of Paul De Man's life and his theories. The Nabokov comparisons that have been used to describe this book are well deserved - the irony and wit of the narrator are simply perfect.