Off the Road - Preface

a jazz novel on a typewriter

Dedicated to Amrita Roy, Στο 7 που μιλάει.

You may have noticed that there is a good deal of subtext in the text of Off the Road. this is because each section contains one or more books and a commentary on what a reader might find interesting or repulsive about be text or subtext of the book.

Prelude -

1 - Set up

2 - Current Events

3 - Ulysses - James Joyce

4 - Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

5 - Interlude on the Internet

6 - Handmaiden’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

7 - Iliad - Homer

8 - Iliad - Death of Hector

9 - Paradise Lost - John Milton

10 - My Name is Red - Orhan Palmuk

11 - The Fifties - Halberstram, the connection between The Beats and Elvis.

12 - Silent Spring - Rachel Carson

13 - Inferno - Dante

14 - Purgatorio - Dante

15 - Paradiso - Dante

16 - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

17 - The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie

18 - La Peste - Camus

19 - The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett

20 - A Medley of Songs

21 - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Sparks

22 - slaughterhouse-five - Kurt Vonnegut

23 - The Annotated Alice - Lewis Carroll ed Martin Gardner

24 - Amphigorey - Edward Gorey ed. Gardiner

25 - Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner

26 - The Decay of the Angel - Yukio Mishima

27 - White Noise - Don DeLillo

28 - Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

29 - Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov

30 - The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

31 - Myra Breckinridge - Gore Vidal.

32 - Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West

33 - Darkness Visible - William Golding

34 - Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis

35 - The Horse and his Boy - C.S. Lewis

36 - The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

37 - My Life - Anton Chekhov

39 - All Apologies - Nirvana

39 - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

40 - Candide - Voltaire

41 - USA - John Don Passos

42 - This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald

43 - Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

44 - Flatland - Edwin A. Abbott, The Planiverse - A. K. Dewdney

45 - Dangling Man - Saul Bellow

46 - Cane - Jean Toomer

47 - The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

48 - The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger

49 - Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

50 - Ragtime - E. L. Doctorow

I will add on to this as I go.

There are, of course, sections from On the Road, Dissemination, and other bits of subtext through out.