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<p>Should a reviewer of contemporary fiction actually be required to, say, like contemporary fiction?</p>
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<p>The question is raised for me by Dale Peck’s <a href="http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020701&s=peck070102&c=1">review</a> of Rick Moody’s <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=66UQJ18C6P&isbn=0316578991">The Black Veil</a>, steered my way by faithful reader <a href="http://www.wombatfile.com">BT</a>. The review is not so much a review as a skewering, and not so much a skewering as an explosion of bile and vitriol. From the very first line:</p>
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<p>If, however, the strongest conclusion that I drew from this review was that Dale Peck really, really, really doesn’t like Rick Moody, I’d say hey, to each his own, whatever. I read <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=66UQJ18C6P&isbn=0316706000">The Ice Storm</a> (granted, after having seen the movie), and enjoyed and appreciated much about it — for instance, I did not find the novel, as Peck does, to have “a troubling fascination with adolescent sexual organs” so much as a concern with the ways that adolescents’ preoccupation with their own sexual organs is driven by the simultaneously prurient and passionless obsessions of the grownups who are ostensibly raising them — but that’s a matter of interpretation and taste. Peck doesn’t like Moody. Whatever.</p>
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<p>In my view, the wrong turn starts around the time Stephen Dedalus goes to college in <em>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</em> and echoes all the way through Don DeLillo’s ponderously self-important rendering of Bobby Thompson’s shot heard round the world in the opening chapter of <em>Underworld.</em></p>
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<p>All I’m suggesting is that these writers (and their editors) see themselves as the heirs to a bankrupt tradition. A tradition that began with the diarrheic flow of words that is <em>Ulysses;</em> continued on through the incomprehensible ramblings of late Faulkner and the sterile inventions of Nabokov; and then burst into full, foul life in the ridiculous dithering of Barth and Hawkes and Gaddis, and the reductive cardboard constructions of Barthelme, and the word-by-word wasting of a talent as formidable as Pynchon’s; and finally broke apart like a cracked sidewalk beneath the weight of the stupid — just plain stupid — tomes of DeLillo.</p>
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<p>Peck’s not wholly off base, I think, in his assessment of postmodernism as a “white man’s ivory tower,” or in his suggestion that the dominance of this select group of writers has skewed the contemporary high-literary scene toward sterile experimentation devoid of affect and compassion. But one nonetheless wonders how useful this kind of judgment is in a piece that arguably supposed to tell whether to buy Moody’s latest or not.</p>
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