Posted by noa on May 26, 2003, at 18:58:59
In reply to Re: Kesey suprise, Wolfe too » noa, posted by Ritch on May 26, 2003, at 16:40:24
Didn't you get the sense, in "Bonfire of the Vanities" that the "poet" (hired by the anorexic party hostesses to entertain the guests) was Wolfe himself? Both loving all the attention and the ability to hobnob with the financial and power elite, eating up all the ostentation, while coyly hiding behind the narrator's cynical mocking of the whole lifestyle?
That was quite a book--a challenge to read because there was not one single character that I could like!
I've also read other things by Wolfe. He has written a lot.
I don't even remember some of things I've read by him it has been so long. (That is why I was able to enjoy "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" again even though I'd read it before!).
The ones I do remember are a book satirizing the New York City society liberals ("Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers"), and a critique of modern architecture ("From Bauhaus to Our House"). Hmm, maybe I'll pick up another Wolfe book of essays next time at the library.
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