Re: JCO: Re: Zombie (Spoil Alert)

Along this subject, I also think of the artist "Name Unknown" in the Rosamond
Smith novel "The Barrens".

Tanya

Selon Gary Couzens <gjcouzens@btinternet.com>:

> Another JCO story dealing with a killer is the novella The Triumph of the
> Spider Monkey. It's much more experimental in style and I'm afraid made
> rather less impression on me.
>
> The thing that struck me about Zombie was the sense - no doubt intended -
> that Quentin is a flawed human being who doesn't get things right - but he
> keeps on trying. When you square that with what he *is* actually trying to
> do, it gives the novel (novella? it's really quite short) a blackly comic
> edge which if anything made it more disturbing for me.
>
> Zombie won the Stoker Award for Best Novel, awarded by the Horror Writers of
> America. JCO isn't a horror-genre writer as such, but she's certainly highly
> respected in the genre and appears regularly in genre anthologies. (I'd rate
> Son of the Morning as one of her best "horror" novels, though its subject
> matter is entirely different to that of Zombie.)
>
> Gary
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Provencher, Nicole D" <ndprovencher@lake.ollusa.edu>
> To: <jco@usfca.edu>
> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 10:01 AM
> Subject: JCO: Zombie (Spoil Alert)
>
>
> Zombie -
>
> I read Zombie this evening. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas as to
> how this story "fits in" with Oates' other works? I have not read Oates
> chronologically or in any particular order (it seems more like the books
> just come to me) and I was disturbed by this work more than any other I have
> read. While many of Oates' stories involving female protagonists end with
> the feeling that the female will go on with her life and find a way to keep
> living, the idea of Quentin allowed to live and plotting and planning is
> very upsetting. Is this male (killer) character revisited in any other
> other works that you have run across? Any ideas on this novel anyone wants
> to discuss?
>
> Also, I noticed that Quentin counts time in this work by placing stones on
> the air-conditioner by the window. Rebecca does the same thing to count
> time in The Grave Digger's Daughter. A little detail - but I found it
> interesting that it appeared in two completely different characters - has
> anyone seen this in other works?
>
> - Nicole (Texas)
>
>
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