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Read the French edition.
Disturbing and way ahead of its time.For my money, Butor beats Robbe-Grillet hands down at the Nouveau Roman game of Russian roulette.
An exasperating caffeine rush of a novel, predating the Beats in their attempts to capture the mescaline cyclone of a trip around America. In 1959, leading French avant-garde writer Michel Butor brummed around the States (one hopes in an open-top Cadillac), collecting titbits of information for use in this freewheeling collage novel. Butor stitches state names, trivia, long Thomas Jefferson passages, and all manner of inscrutable arcana to capture an America before the most miraculous decade in
lovely.
If you're really really really on a David Markson jag and want to stretch it out, this'll do. Blinkered America as seen through the nouveau roman eyes of a driving Frog in all its trashy, neon glory. May she rise again.
I first read Mobile in the sixties, in French, and in spite of a failing memory for the language, re-read it recently. And now in English. Written in the era of Rauschenberg and Pop collage, the book is a pastiche, alternating between short, dry notes seemingly made as the writer travels across America, and excerpts, sometimes fascinating, sometimes damning, always revealing, from our own documents. Audubon's diaries, Sears catalogs, treaties with Indian tribes, billboards, all kinds of quotati
How eerie to read the fruits of this avant-garde French writer's 1959 road trip across America, the salvaged American words and documents, in light of the present atmosphere in the US. As a Canadian I found it endlessly fascinating and insightful—not to mention disturbing at times. My review can be found at: https://roughghosts.com/2017/02/07/ex...
perhaps the baby brother of stein's "making of americans". it isn't really a fiction. it isn't quite a history. it is what it calls itself: a "representation" of the united states. so here it is then, on paper.
