So basically this is Canadian / Quebec Pynchon. No one has ever seen him, there are no photos of him etc. He writes more lyric/profound/melancholic stuff about childhood, innocence etc. No irony.
Thought he would be an interesting choice for you.
Cheers mates.
Réjean Ducharme
Lucas Gray
Landon Phillips
are there english translations of his work?
Christian Adams
L'Avalée des avalés - 1966 (translated into English by Barbara Bray as The Swallower Swallowed)
Jace Richardson
That's a stupid name.
Brandon Rodriguez
Ian Torres
maybe it's a pseudonyme or something, mr Ruggles hehe
Camden Nguyen
>The Swallower Swallowed
Didn't know they wrote biographies of your mom :)
Jace Peterson
Neither did I, my friendo.
Brandon Evans
Is he dead? Nothing published since 1999.
That aside, how's his prose? In French of course.
Liam Long
he is probably alive, but you never know. Quebec is proud of its culture so it would be a well known fact if he died d.e.s.u.
Prose?
Memories of childhood and youth, delicate, poetic, melancholic, refined, personal, 1st person, feelings rather than thoughts. Who I would compare him to? Maybe Ashbery if he wrote prose. Nothing connecting him to irony or post-irony, or even post-modernism.
Hudson Foster
>Who I would compare him to? Maybe Ashbery if he wrote prose.
ooh daddy likey
Justin Walker
If you knew, my love, how... breakdown!
The day started off... breakdown!
When we got up we didn't kno... breakdown!
Nicole cried and I star... breakdown!
I told her Nicole, m'little Honeycole, stop that, stop that right now, you can... breakdown!
When we got up, the curtains were burst... breakdown!
We went to eat a hamburger steak at Laval Bar-B-Q, to live it up a little, and that's what... breakdown!
Nicole had a bad case of diarrhea. She would no sooner come out of the ladies' room than she would run in again (the hamburger steak was served with spaghetti sauce). And in between visits she cried. She didn't just cry between visits, she cried sitting on the toilet bowl, too.
I won't let... breakdown!
We're not gonna let this happen to us. We're gonna persist, keep on, headlong into the pile of It, and come out of it. To show It how we can... After our victory we'll parade like major-general majorettes, left-right, ass-tight...
Like majorettes but not clean and tidy like they are... Dirty we'll be, in the same uniform we'll have on coming out of It, full of stains, gobs of t sticking all over us. So that it shows... So it doesn't go wasted... Other people just wash it off as it comes. Gottawash nottastink! So dey say. Can't allow the stench to go to waste, can't allow sadnèsse to disappear in its own mèsse! So wee say.
Long live sadnèsse! It's neither here nor there, this nor that, it's be sadde or be deadde! Any other questions, asshole? Do you think that just because you keep on saying that you don't find life to your liking they're going to give you your money back and give you a brand-new one, very different, and very extra special, made just for you, asshole? Are you so senseless, asshole, that you believe it's enough to be against geraniums (for instance) for them to eliminate geraniums, asshole? Geraniums and sadnèsse are here to stay, since they're already here... and that's all there is to it. It's not a question of: shall I accept of shall I refuse this or that. This and that are there. That's it, that's all it is, it makes no more sense than that. Take it. Say yes. Don't struggle for nothing, nothing's gonna give.
When you get cuckholded you gotta love it, otherwise it goes, you go, we go. ITGOZ -HUGO- WEGO. Cinderella tella fella!
Jacob Diaz
who are you quoting?
Nathaniel Bell
That's from one of Ducharme's novels, Wild to mild (L'hiver de force).
Leo Wright
thanks!
Jose Nelson
en bumpant
Easton Martinez
Shit compared to Pynchon though. Un peu fruste, tout de même. Vaguement vulgaire.
Liam Jones
I just compared them on mystery/personnality/constant hiding from public level
Nicholas Martin
DUCHARME! SIENDO FRANCÉS!
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Anthony James
As someone still trying to get a grasp on his French, could I tackle one of his books? Where would I start?
Luis Miller
L'Avalée des avalés, the most knownest
Charles Nelson
He's like Salinger, not Pynchon, you retard.
Jeremiah Gomez
already told you you retard
Aiden Price
It's a bad, lazy comparison.
Jack Sanders
why is that?
Adrian Bailey
> doesn't do interviews
> HEY YOU GUYS ITS THE [X] PYNCHON
shows you dont really know pynchon
Asher Torres
you must have down syndrome
Eli Wilson
you must have killed your own thread
Josiah Cruz
Actually I didn't. I just compared two mysterious behaviors and author's performances (Ducharme has even less photos avaible than Pynchon) and your argument was "NO BECAUSE PYNCHON, PYNCHON PYNCHON HE IS NOT PYNCHON", like an autistic retard. So fuck you.
Jose Bailey
I have fewer photos than both, I am the next Pynchon
Easton Rogers
What books have you read? Which is Ducharme's best?
David Bell
another argumentum ad absurdum.
You should be at least a known author SUCH AS Ducharme (he is known, believe me) or Pynchon, can't you see that? Inb4 responding to a troll. That pynches a lot.
Juan Miller
>You should be at least a known author SUCH AS Ducharme
I know, thank you for seeing that in me user, my mother says the same, if only the (((liberal-womyn-publishing-media-university-complex))) felt the same way
Christopher Thompson
Ducharme is just great and why are you Americans so freakin obsessed by Pynchon? Get a grip on yourselves ffs
William Roberts
>author's performances
You don't unnerstand my Pynchon, get outta here before I put you in a fauteuil rollant, hombré