The Author Who Fled

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Posted on November 15, 2004 
Filed Under Prokosch, Frederic

It’s not available online, but the latest NYRoB has a fantastic essay on the underrated writer Frederick Prokosch. I’ve praised Prokosch before on these pages and expressed sorrow that everything he’s written is out of print, but it was nice to learn that The Asiatics is being reissued early next year. The Asiatics, if you haven’t read it, serves as a gloomier-than-usual take on the American expatriate traveling through exotic land formula. The difference is that Prokosch’s fantastic descriptions, to say nothing of his riffs on consciousness and identity, transform it into a kind of honed, yet primitive poetry that’s sui generis.

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2 Responses to “The Author Who Fled”

  1. CAAF on November 15th, 2004 4:35 pm

    wow, Ed, it’s sort of ravishing when you work in the sui generis. If you could just get jejune in the same sentence…

  2. Dave on November 19th, 2004 1:12 pm

    Nice work.