Bob, or Man on Boat: A Novel
by Peter Markus
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Read in August, 2008
one thing about lists, as sorrentino and warhol and now markus have taught us, is that they need never end (or begin), that they point endlessly.
we trust an incantation—-that repetitive chanting—-in part because of its self-impoverished language. thus markus' song, in this moving, incantatory first novel, is not maximal or prolific; he gets away with only talking about fish and mud and brothers and fathers and sons because he talks only of them, doesn't talk about them for long (though...more
we trust an incantation—-that repetitive chanting—-in part because of its self-impoverished language. thus markus' song, in this moving, incantatory first novel, is not maximal or prolific; he gets away with only talking about fish and mud and brothers and fathers and sons because he talks only of them, doesn't talk about them for long (though...more
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Read in July, 2008
I was curious (and perhaps a bit skeptical) how Peter Markus' unique voice might adjust to a longer format. In some ways Bob, or Man on Boat, reminds me of The Song of Hiawatha, but where Longfellow adopted strict meter to represent the campfire drumbeats of the northwood, Markus' less formal rhythmic layers flow across the pages in the contour of the river they describe. To read Bob is to touch the ages.
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