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The Journalist
As an aid to recovering from a nervous breakdown, the narrator of The Journalist begins to keep daily records of almost everything that goes on in his life, from how much he has spent on books and movies to what he eats. As the diary progresses, the narrator's entries become more and more detailed and increasingly bizarre, especially as he begins to devise elaborate classification systems for his unwieldy materials. Since these entries require more and more of his time, he begins to withdraw from family and friends, entering a world perfectly ordered, organized, and utterly weird.
Details
ISBN-10
1-56478-165-8
ISBN-13
9781564781659
Publication Date
Oct 1997
Nb of pages
256
Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5 in.
ReviewsPress Reviews
Time Out
Mathews charts his descent into mania with clarity and wit . . . He has not eschewed the consolations of an ordinary novel—a clever, twisting plot, realistic characters and bouts of laugh-out-loud
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New York Times
Times Literary Supplement Quotations
The calm with which Harry Mathews represents the elusiveness of the self in this riveting, masterful novel is like the calm in the eye of a hurricane. The Journalist will take your breath away.
-Walter Abish
The Journalist is both a slightly surreal comedy of manners and a frightening parable on the carnivorous nature of the written word. It's Mathews's most stunning and approachable fiction so far.
-John Ashbery WE ALSO SUGGEST
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