John Hawkes
Birth date: August 17, 1925
Died: May 15, 1998
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I am an uncontrolled variable.The text, in this case The Beetle Leg, is the independent variable. My reaction, or yours, or anyone else’s would be the dependent variable.With this experimental novel, one might (I was) tempted to say that the experiment failed, but experiments don’t fail—they produce...
A friend recommended this to me, and lo, it was on the shelf at my library. I read it on a sunny Sunday morning, as it is a a small format book and only 160 pages (probably half that in regular size). Hawkes has created a compelling exercise in first person stream of consciousness. Our Dervla narrat...
I read a chunk of this and had no idea why... lots of descriptions about boots and tables or something... But what bothered me most is that this is an Ivy League professor trying to sound like he's a dirt cowboy in Montana -- just as, in the Lime Twig (which worked better, I thought), he was trying ...
I have no idea quite what I've just read - but that it gripped me somewhere deep inside....
another forgotten and brilliant classic. the challenging writing style will put casual readers off, but for me it was great experiencing this bizarre, sinister dreamscape of a post-ww2 germany. or really any kind of blighted post-war city, trying to rebuild. at times it reads like a perverse counter...
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