Chekhov's Mistress
Faulkner has the last word on Kentuckians
Out all day at the WLF, but I see from links at Bookslut and Maud that Kentuckian’s are not happy with the way their state is protrayed in Roth’s new novel, The Plot Against America.
Well, I spent the first 11 years of my life in the Bluegrass state and now only tend to go back for funerals and such. I doubt I will read Roth’s novel because I’m just not a fan, but I can say this about his fictional characterization of KY as anti-semitic: whatever their belief’s, those folks are just too nice to do anything hateful about them, particularly as brutally as the novel depicts. I mean this is the home of Maker’s Mark Buorbon. They should be grateful that they were recognized literary by someone besides ZZ Packer (and myself, but I don’t count in that regard), instead of being upset; it is fiction after all. The reporter does get her word in though: “What’s especially ironic is that Roth’s characters escape the living hell of Kentucky to retreat to the safe haven of … Newark, New Jersey?” That’s funny.
I am reminded of a quote by Faulkner in the Sound and the Fury that goes “Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a kentuckian too.”
– Otherwise, I learned today that there are more Chinese nationals taking the SATs in English than Americans.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: September 22, 2004
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