A Visit from the Goon Squad Reread
Jennifer Egan described her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad as a combination of Proust and The Sopranos. In rereading the book, Ivan Kreilkamp takes Egan up on her comparison, showing how it blends a concern with the status of the novel in the twenty-first century with an elegiac meditation on how we experience the passage of time.Kreilkamp, a former music critic, examines how Egan's characters turn to rock and especially punk in search of community and meaning. He considers what the novel's portrayal of music says about the role of art in contemporary culture as digitization makes older technologies obsolete. Combini…
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- ISBN: 978-0-231-54701-7
- EAN: 9780231547017
- Produktnummer: 33935918
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'909 KB
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Ivan Kreilkamp
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