Word: pilgermann
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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FICTION: Ancient Evenings, Norman Mailer ¶Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Mdrquez The Feud, Thomas Berger ¶The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco Pilgermann, Russell Hoban ¶Sister Age, M.F.K. Fisher
FICTION: Ancient Evenings, Norman Mailer ∙Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Mdrquez Heartburn, Nora Ephron Ironweed, William Kennedy Pilgermann, Russell Hoban ∙Sister Age, M.F.K. Fisher
...seems particularly to hear the buzzing of flies." A picture from doomed Antioch: "As the sun ascends the morning shadow of the eastern slopes of Silpius withdraws from the city like a transparent purple robe trailed across a floor." Because he still lives as a glitch in the cosmos, Pilgermann can play telescopic tricks with space and time. He remembers the rituals of Passover, the precautionary striking of the side posts and lintels of Jewish dwellings, and makes a leap: "The spattering drops of blood fan slowly, slowly out out, out, the drops of blood become the stars...
...Pilgermann does live, both as a character in a vivid moment of the historical past and as a living, questing spirit. Hoban successfully creates a pilgrim who once traveled and who has not stopped. His novel is not an easy read only a fascinating and rewarding one. -By Paul Gray
...Well do we know that in each of us lives a skeleton that waits for the flesh to die, there is an absence waiting for the presence to depart-but a great city! A city like Antioch! As Pilgermann the owl I fly over it now and it looks like nothing really, it has retreated from its medieval boundaries, it has shrunk and dwindled, it has huddled itself together, has drawn back from the vaunt of its greatness and the largeness of its history, it is like a swimmer who has struggled barely alive out of a raging torrent...