Name: Lunar Follies
Author: Gilbert Sorrentino (Author)
ISBN: 9781566891691

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Lunar Follies

Author(s): Gilbert Sorrentino (Author)

Publisher: Coffee House Press
Publication Date: April 1, 2005
Language: English
Print length: 145 pages
ISBN-10: 1566891698
ISBN-13: 9781566891691

Book Description

A richly entertaining journey through the art world, narrated by an acutely insightful raconteur.

In writing that is bawdy, clever, irreverent, and wry, Sorrentino gathers a motley collection of art world aspirants, rejected writers, vacuous exhibitionists, and the discourse, trends, and corporate coddling that surround them. With precise comedic timing and an abundance of erotic detail, Lunar Follies skewers postmodern culture in a bitingly satiric tour of imaginary gallery, museum, and performance art exhibitions. These 53 “reviews,” named after geographic features of the moon, provide a guide through the lunacy of a contemporary art world valiantly maintaining its pretensions in the face of a society that barely notices it.

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For decades Sorrentino, prolific, irreverent, and imaginative, has been sequestered in the lamentable territory reserved for that endangered species, the "writer's writer." But recently he has aligned himself with the moon, and leapt the barrier with irresistibly smart and pithy comic works. First came the acclaimed The Moon in Its Flight [BKL Ap 1 04], a collection of wry salvos on all things literary. Now, in Lunar Follies, he aims his satirical wit, acrobatic linguistics, and critical acumen at the art world to hilarious effect. In each mock review of an installation piece or exhibit, all of which are named after features on the moon to indicate their inherent lunacy, Sorrentino manages to brilliantly satirize not only bad and pretentious art but also ludicrously pedantic and fawning art criticism--not to mention our fascination with celebrities, sex, and mobsters, and our high tolerance for excessive historical minutiae and sheer vapidness. Sorrentino's riffs are beat poetry, his sly descent into absurdity deliciously funny, and his send-up of artistic pomposity at once affectionate and affirming. We knew the emperor had no clothes. Donna Seaman
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Review

“For decades, Gilbert Sorrentino has remained a unique figure in our literature. He reminds us that fiction lives because artists make it. . . . To the novel—everyone’s novel—Sorrentino brings honor, tradition, and relentless passion.” —Don DeLillo

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