Visit from the Goon Squad Reread
Visit from the Goon Squad Reread Jennifer Egan described her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad as a combination of Proust and The Sopranos. He considers what the novel's…
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Visit from the Goon Squad Reread
Jennifer Egan described her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad as a combination of Proust and The Sopranos. He considers what the novel's portrayal of music says about the role of art in contemporary culture as digitization makes older technologies obsolete. In rereading the book, Ivan Kreilkamp takes Egan up on her comparison, showing how it blends a concern with the status of the novel in the twenty-first century with an elegiac meditation on how we experience the passage of time.Kreilkamp, a former music critic, examines how Egan's characters turn to rock and especially punk in search of community and meaning.
For Kreilkamp, Combining personal and critical reflection, he reveals how A Visit from the Goon Squad articulates and responds to the sense of loss many feel as cherished physical objects are replaced with immaterial data.
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