By Charles Portis
Following the big luck of the reissues of Charles Portis's first 3 novels--The puppy of the South, Norwood, and Masters of Atlantis--comes the reissue of a fourth really magnificent, splendidly strange novel via considered one of our nice American novelists.
Jimmy Burns is an expatriate American residing in Mexico who has an uncommonly astute eye for the absurd little information that include your usual American. For a time, Jimmy spent his days unearthing pre-Colombian artifacts. Now he makes a dwelling doing small trucking jobs and supporting out with the occasional lacking individual situation--whatever it takes to stay "the very photograph of an American loafer in Mexico, down to the grass-green golf trousers." but if Jimmy's laid-back way of life is heavily imposed upon through a ninety-pound stalker known as Louise, a surprising wave of "hippies" (led by way of a murderous ex-con guru) looking for psychic happenings, and a bunch of archaeologists who're unearthing (illegally) Mayan tombs, his uncomplicated South-of-the-Border life faces a transparent and current danger.
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As García Düttman writes of Agamben’s reading of Benjamin’s integral actuality, the idea of prose evades either “poetic singularity” 26 or “philosophic generality” in order to present “the thing no longer separated from its intelligibility . ” The world of integral actuality establishes a “between” that is no longer oriented to “two extremes” but rather “exceeds what it simultaneously separates and brings together . ” However, one cannot “persist within pure possibility” since one would no longer be hesitating before its fulfillment.
For Levinas, however, we can only know of our death, of our finitude, in experiencing the deaths of others. ”79 For Nancy, the experience of Bataillean sovereignty is an “abandonment” of being to what is outside itself. ”83 Heidegger’s “authentic being” and organic community is rejected as a being-toward (or working toward) subject to the future; instead, where community denotes only a limit that is interrupted as soon as it is reached, it is “unworked” (désouvrée). Anything one might offer as a “work,” whether it is a people, a nation, or a work of art, is “abandoned” at this limit, its proposal of exemplarity withdrawn.
106 Agamben, Coming Community, 35. 107 Agamben, Coming Community, 2. 108 Nancy, Inoperative Community, 60. 109 Nabokov, Ada, 587. Emphasis in original. 110 Nabokov, Lolita, 13. 111 Nabokov, Ada, 536. 112 Nabokov, Ada, 18. 113 Nabokov, Ada, 18. 114 Nabokov, Ada, 536. 115 Nabokov, Strong Opinions, 156. 116 Nabokov, Ada, 550. 117 Bataille, Accursed Share, 220. 118 Nabokov, Ada, 536. 119 Nabokov, Strong Opinions, 69. 120 Bataille, Accursed Share, 210. 121 Nabokov, Ada, 219-220. 122 Nabokov, Ada, 556.