Review of Contemporary Fiction, July 1st, 2005
Gilbert Sorrentino. Lunar Follies. Coffee House Press, 2005. 143 pp. Paper: $14.00. Sorrentino is a master, but a particular specialty of his has always been illustrating the "eight million ways to step off the cliff"-or lose one's soul-in the pursuit of art. No one is better at showing us how sentiment and self-importance go wrong, or at illuminating the real tragedy behind the sham art he excoriates with such precision: namely, that the desperation we all have to find some kind of aesthetic unity in our unhappy lives-and our concomitant desire for self-expression-has filled the world with s...
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