> ELEPHANT:
> If ever a novel looked like a philosophical treatise, Prisig's is it! But
> then, there's no reason why a novel shouldn't be a philosophical treatise,
> any less than a poem (Parmenides, Heraclitus), or a play (Plato).
I mean that he describes it as something else all together. A chautauqua, I
believe (which I did take as referring a distinct and new genre he was
trying to write in). But really, there's no need to confine it to any single
genre and it would probably be silly to try. The distinct feature of many
works is taken from an interplay of the genres within them.
> Structuralists like Derrida talk as if language was totally cut
> off from the mystical reality (with language conducting it's own affairs,
> like a sovereign state). But it's not like that at all, the
> structuralists have got it all wrong.
Eerrmm, Derrida isn't a structuralist. His work is founded on a critique of
structuralism.
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