Re: [microsound] ambient books

["The pHarmanaut" <pharmanaut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, good choice there with Robbe-Grillet. His films (_Last Year at
Marienbad_ and _Hiroshiman Mon Amour_) work in similarly ambient terrain.

-=Trace

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From: "tattermalion" <tattermalion@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [microsound] ambient books

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> I have to give a shout out to robbe-grillet for being the most ambient
writer on my shelf. Anyone interested should check out Jealousy. It starts
with a diagram of the banana plantation where it all takes place and then
renders up chronologically disjointed 'scenes' within this area. There's a
definite de-emphasization of the things listed below. It's a great treatment
of a feeling.
>  Marc Weidenbaum <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:That does raise an interesting
point. My reference to Nicholson Baker was,
> in large part, based on how those books are literary analogs to ambient
> music, in that they de-emphasize (if not eradicate) the familiar pacing
> devices of fiction (plot, action) in favor of a less event-oriented state
> of timelessness.
>
> M
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