American Genius, A Comedy (Paperback)

from wdlaurie

I bravely ventured 30 pages into this book before I gave up. If you enjoy sophomoric stream of consciousness writing, then this is your book.

from reganrule

American Genius: a Comedy falls into the category of post-modern self-referential novels a la Wittgenstein's Mistress, Wittgenstein's Nephew, and perhaps Jaeggy's Sweet Days of Discipline. All of these present a first person narrative: an isolated individual enjoys the dubious privilege of existi...

from Paulagraph

This "novel" took me an inordinate amount of time to read. And it's only 292 pages in length! I kept picking it up and putting it down. I read one big chunk on a flight from Tucson to Oakland, however, which served to solidify this dense and almost maddeningly recursive anti-narrative for me. A n...