{"id":106755,"date":"2017-01-17T09:09:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T14:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=106755"},"modified":"2017-01-17T10:15:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T15:15:57","slug":"that-ship-has-sailed-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/17\/that-ship-has-sailed-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"That Ship Has Sailed, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/portada-zama1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-106756 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/portada-zama1.jpg\" width=\"925\" height=\"809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/portada-zama1.jpg 925w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/portada-zama1-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/portada-zama1-768x672.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a>From a foreign edition of <i>Zama<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of my favorite reissues last year was <em>Zama<\/em>, a 1956 novel by the Argentinean writer Antonio Di Benedetto. It opens with a description of a dead monkey, \u201cstill undecomposed,\u201d drifting aimlessly in a \u201cwrithing patch of water\u201d\u2014and the fun doesn\u2019t let up from there! As Benjamin Kunkel writes, <em>Zama<\/em> depicts frontier life as a leap into an abysmal chasm of anxiety and unknowing: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/01\/23\/a-neglected-south-american-masterpiece\" target=\"_blank\">Here is a white man whose whiteness fails to yield any providential good fortune, and a sojourner in the wilderness of himself confronting the cipher of the universe with religious dread<\/a>. Americans\u2014in the sense of the word that covers Alaska and Tierra del Fuego alike\u2014live in a hemisphere that was conquered and settled by people who saw it as a place in which to realize their dreams. <em>Zama<\/em> is, among other things, a ringing statement of this hemispheric condition, in an unaccustomed key of defeat: \u2018Here was I in the midst of a vast continent that was invisible to me though I felt it all around, a desolate paradise, far too immense for my legs,\u2019 Zama tells us. \u2018America existed for no one if not for me, but it existed only in my needs, my desires, and my fears.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And reader, you\u2019re in luck: the notes of existential alarm in <em>Zama<\/em> have seldom resonated as they do this week, with the coronation of America\u2019s first orange president just days away. It\u2019s a great time to ponder the connection between being and suffering. But don\u2019t lose hope, and don\u2019t stop reading. Adam Kirsch makes a compelling argument for the relevance of fiction at a time when almost nothing and no one feels relevant: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/15\/books\/lie-to-me-fiction-in-the-post-truth-era.html\" target=\"_blank\">From its beginning, the novel has tested the distinction between truth, fiction and lie; now the collapse of those distinctions has given us the age of Trump<\/a>. We are entering a period in which the very idea of literature may come to seem a luxury, a distraction from political struggle. But the opposite is true: No matter how irrelevant hardheaded people may believe it to be, literature continually proves itself a sensitive instrument, a leading indicator of changes that will manifest themselves in society and culture. Today as always, the imagination is our best guide to what reality has in store.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Richard Prince, meanwhile, is doing his part to muddy the waters of that \u201creality,\u201d which, as you\u2019ll recall, were not so very clear to begin with. The artist has returned the thirty-six-thousand-dollar payment he received from Ivanka Trump for one of his Instagram paintings of her, which he hopes to render valueless through his disavowal: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/12\/arts\/design\/richard-prince-protesting-trump-returns-art-payment.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Prince first announced his decision in a series of\u00a0tweets, saying that he was disavowing the work<\/a>. In language that echoed Mr. Trump\u2019s rhetoric, he called his own work \u2018fake\u2019 and added, \u2018I denounce\u2019 \u2026 \u2018It was just an honest way for me to protest,\u2019 Mr. Prince said. \u2018It was a way of deciding what\u2019s right and wrong. And what\u2019s right is art, and what\u2019s wrong is not art. I decided the Trumps are not art.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Sometimes being an effective campaign\u00a0staffer means becoming a method actor and a performance artist. Last summer, Philippe Reines, who worked under Clinton in the Senate and the State Department, took on the role of a lifetime: he played Trump in the practice debates. As Annie Karni writes, he took to the part with relish:\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2017\/01\/philippe-reines-donald-trump-214630\" target=\"_blank\">Reines purchased four podiums on Amazon, two for his home and two for the secret office the Clinton campaign lent him at the Perkins Coie law firm in Washington, D.C.<\/a> He searched eBay for a 2005 Donald J. Trump signature collection watch, which he purchased for $175. He experimented with a self-tanning lotion on his face. Before prep sessions, Reines began suiting up with velcro knee pads (to keep his legs straight), a posture enhancer (to keep his arms back), and dress shoes with three-inch lifts (to match Trump\u2019s 6-foot-1-inch frame). His longtime tailor fit him for a loose-fitting suit with large cuffs \u2026 Hoping to fully become the character he had been cast to play, Reines briefly went off his meds \u2026 Reines bought a bag with combination locks to store his prep materials while shuttling between his home and his temporary office. He became so anxious about accidentally leaving the bag in an Uber that he put a GPS locator on it and then shackled the entire contraption to his wrist.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Advice for authors: if you want to see a nice spike in sales, just get insulted by Trump. The \u201cTrump Bump\u201d has\u00a0worked wonders for John Lewis, whose disparagement at the (tiny) hands of the president-elect has paid big dividends: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apnewsarchive.com\/2017\/Two-of-John-Lewis-books-have-sold-out-on-Amazon-after-the-Democratic-congressman-claimed-the-top-spots-on-the-site-s-best-seller-list\/id-0c3379bc0f3a45cc95654fc5f27b2815\" target=\"_blank\">Sales of the civil rights leader\u2019s graphic novel <em>March<\/em>\u00a0and his 2015 memoir <em>Walking with the Wind<\/em>\u00a0skyrocketed following his feud with president-elect Donald Trump over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend<\/a> \u2026 A collection of his <em>March<\/em> trilogy ranked number one\u00a0on Amazon, and its individual volumes also charted high. <em>Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement<\/em>\u00a0ranked number two.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: a reissued Argentinean classic, Richard 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