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...best approach then, to Jason and Medeia is prescribed by the philosopher-critic, William Gass. In terms of esthetics, Gass is probably Gardner's strongest source (indeed, Kropopros's final philosophical argument in Jason is based on one of Gass's essays). According to Gass, fiction has too long been regarded as a way of looking at reality, when it is, in fact, an addition to it. The author is not mirroring the real world, he's creating a new one--a world of language and ideas, where character and plot become subordinated. Jason and Medeia is just such...
...PROBABLY fair to say that the Novel came out of the sixties less dead than it came in. For the most part, that was thanks to the experimentation of people like Pynchon, William Gass, John Barth, Donald Barthelme and Robert Coover who were busy providing a set of new literary forms aching for new literary content. And now, just in the past year or so, two novels have appeared that make glimmer the hope that the old Genre might be back on her feet before long. Gravity's Rainbow, when it is working, is one of these, Updike's Rabbit...
...deign to consider what is best in less-consistent realms of endeavor until it is overvalued by the unthinking others. Aside from that of Charles Thomas Samuels, the film writing Rahv has published has been obtuse: theater is totally absent, television not even acknowledged. Serious literary tricksters (Barth, Gass and Barthelme) who are trying to engage in their own kind of criticism of our language and outworn genres, are barely acknowledged...
...reader to consider these possibilities, Sloan's literary master seems less Kafka than Jorge Luis Borges. He writes dazzling mini-essays on schizophrenia, stoicism, and the role of the artist in relation to society as if his own definition of an artist's job were, in William Gass's memorable phrase, "to canonize confusion...
...principals, Gass on organ and Sheldon on guitar, are remarkable musicians. Bobby Gass, a Harvard senior, was classically trained and brings all the precision and subtlety of refined technique to the brash vitality of the rock-world which he seems also to have absorbed. He composed a fugue for "Lady," which goes so well with the traditions of rock&roll that it leaves one's faith in the future of contemporary music gloriously reaffirmed...