Jayber Crow and “The Call”
NOTICEPersons attempting to find a “text” in this book will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a “subtext” in it will be banished; persons attempting to explain, interpret, explicate, analyze, deconstruct, or otherwise “understand” it will be exiled to a desert island in the company only of other explainers. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR The above is the “notice” posted in Wendell Berry’s novel Jayber Crow. This is strikingly similar to the “notice” which precedes Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Continue Reading…
April 7, 2008