A Visit from the Goon Squad Reread

Ivan Kreilkamp

Published by Columbia University Press 2021

A Visit from the Goon Squad Reread

Ivan Kreilkamp

In the series Rereadings

https://doi.org/10.7312/krei18710

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About this book

Jennifer Egan described her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad as a combination of Proust and The Sopranos. In rereading the book, Ivan Kreilkamp takes Egan up on her comparison, showing how it blends a concern with the status of the novel today with an elegiac meditation on how we experience the passage of time.

Author / Editor information

Kreilkamp Ivan :

Ivan Kreilkamp is associate professor in the department of English at Indiana University. He is the author of Voice and the Victorian Storyteller (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and Minor Creatures: Persons, Animals, and the Victorian Novel (University of Chicago Press, 2018). In addition to his work in such scholarly journals as ELH and Novel, he has also published in such publications as The New Yorker (online), Public Books, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Millions, and Senses of Cinema. Less recently he was a pop music critic writing for Spin, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, The Boston Phoenix, and elsewhere.Ivan Kreilkamp is professor of English at Indiana University. His books include Minor Creatures: Persons, Animals, and the Victorian Novel (2018), and he is coeditor of Victorian Studies. He has published pop-music criticism in the Village Voice, Spin, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere.

Reviews

Jeremy Rosen, author of Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace:
Kreilkamp’s lucid reading offers a refreshingly unapologetic appreciation of an important recent novel. This timely and engaging book argues that Goon Squad poses fiction as uniquely capable of grasping the experience of time, and thus as necessary as ever in a contemporary moment dominated by the digital and the visual.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Intro/bonus track When Art Dematerialized Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Side A, track 1 Time’s a Goon: From A to B Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Side A, track 2 Storage, Preservation, Memory, Recording Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Side B, track 3 Failure, Shame, Tragedy, Emptiness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Side B, track 4 Aesthetics, Purity, Gender, Authenticity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

eBook

Published: February 8, 2021
ISBN: 9780231547017