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A Visit from the Goon Squad Reread

  • Ivan Kreilkamp
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2021
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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 today with an elegiac meditation on how we experience the passage of time.

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Kreilkamp Ivan :

Ivan Kreilkamp is associate professor in the department of English at Indiana University. He is the author of Voice and the Victorian Storyteller (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and Minor Creatures: Persons, Animals, and the Victorian Novel (University of Chicago Press, 2018). In addition to his work in such scholarly journals as ELH and Novel, he has also published in such publications as The New Yorker (online), Public Books, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Millions, and Senses of Cinema. Less recently he was a pop music critic writing for Spin, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, The Boston Phoenix, and elsewhere.Ivan Kreilkamp is professor of English at Indiana University. His books include Minor Creatures: Persons, Animals, and the Victorian Novel (2018), and he is coeditor of Victorian Studies. He has published pop-music criticism in the Village Voice, Spin, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere.

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Jeremy Rosen, author of Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace:
Kreilkamp’s lucid reading offers a refreshingly unapologetic appreciation of an important recent novel. This timely and engaging book argues that Goon Squad poses fiction as uniquely capable of grasping the experience of time, and thus as necessary as ever in a contemporary moment dominated by the digital and the visual.


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When Art Dematerialized
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Time’s a Goon: From A to B
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Storage, Preservation, Memory, Recording
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Failure, Shame, Tragedy, Emptiness
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Aesthetics, Purity, Gender, Authenticity
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