TMR 31.4: "When I Was a Barge" [The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice]
This week, Kaija, Brian, and Chad talk about the various levels of narration to this book and the interplay between the “books” and the “intermezzos.” They also end up comparing and connecting The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice to a number of books and authors, including Mulligan Stew, Samuel Beckett, The Golden Notebook, I the Supreme, and Flann O’Brien. Finally, they focus in on the idea of a “montage novel” and how this upends male-dominated patterns of fiction.
This week’s music is “Not Today” by Kim Gordon.
Next week’s episode will cover up through page 299 (“Fifth Intermezzo”…
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