Mario Taboada writes:
Some additional glorious titles by Willeford: _New Hope
for
he Dead_, _The Shark-Infested Custard_ and _The Burnt
Orange Heresy_. The titles perfectly reflect Willefordian
irony, which is a gentle irony with surprising kinks.
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i've only read THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY, but i guess there is
irony in a world famous painter who has never painted a
single thing. gentle? don't know about that. practically
slapstick in this particular case.
but what impressed me most in THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY was the
absolutely wickedly delightful satire of the art world and
the critic's place in it. its a subtle and quiet and very
believable construction of a totally absurd and ridiculous
situation, rivalling something from a marx brother movie. its
right up there with CATCH-22 in depicting absurdity as the
norm.
since irony was mentioned, there's something that's bugging
me. in THE SUN ALSO RISES, bill gorton and jake barnes are
sitting in a cafe laughing about a couple of literary
effects. one of them is irony. i wish to hell i could
remember the other. was it metaphor?
miker
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