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\"\"<\/a>On a recent Sunday evening, in a lounge at the Jane Hotel in Manhattan, the writers Kurt Andersen and Anne Kreamer enacted before an audience the final pages of The Adventures of Mao on the Long March<\/em><\/a>, a 1971 work of literary pastiche by the author Frederic Tuten. Andersen played the role of Chairman Mao, sitting for a fictitious interview. \u201cHave you seen Godard\u2019s La Chinoise<\/em>?\u201d asked Kreamer, playing his interlocutor. \u201cHave you seen Dali\u2019s Mao\/Marilyn?\u201d \u201cChairman Mao, perhaps I might ask your opinion on birth control.\u201d Tuten himself, a septuagenarian in a black blazer, sat at the front of the room, beaming with happiness at the event held in his honor.<\/p>\n

If you have not heard of The Adventures of Mao<\/em>, you would not have been out of place at its marathon reading. Indeed, some of those who gathered to participate in the reading\u2014a roster including Lydia Davis, Wallace Shawn, Walter Mosley, John Guare, and Edmund White\u2014admitted to having had only a glancing familiarity with the novel or its author. Yet The Adventures of Mao<\/em>, about, as the title suggests, the Chinese dictator\u2019s rise to power, has always had its advocates; Susan Sontag called it \u201csoda pop, a cold towel, or a shady spot under a tree for culture-clogged footsoldiers on the American long march.\u201d In 1972, the book achieved that pinnacle of literary attention, the John Updike New Yorker <\/em>review. Analyzing the novel\u2019s five distinct modes\u2014textbooklike history of the Long March; ample direct quotation from the likes of Hawthorne, Melville, and Fenimore Cooper; passages of literary parody of authors such as Kerouac and Malamud; \u201cnormal novelistic substance\u2014imaginary encounters and conversations\u201d; and, finally, that extended interview with Chairman Mao\u2014Updike declared the resulting sum \u201can intelligent, taut, and entertaining change from conventional novels.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite Mao<\/em>\u2019s champions over the decades\u2014New Directions embalmed it as one of its classics in 2005\u2014the event at the Jane Hotel was in some ways an unlikely one. It had all begun in the Strand Bookstore, where three men in their twenties stumbled upon the book and brought it to their book club. JW McCormack, an editor at Conjunctions<\/em>, was one of them. \u201cI so enjoyed reading Mao aloud,\u201d he told me. \u201cIt was a valentine to everything [Tuten] loved and everything he hated.\u201d Soon McCormack and his friends hatched a plan to stage a marathon reading. They reached out to friends at The New Inquiry<\/em>, an online literary magazine; Bomb<\/em>, ForYourArt<\/em>, and Google Places would eventually come aboard as cohosts for the evening, which also celebrated New Directions\u2019s seventy-fifth year. McCormack and his friends also approached Tuten himself. \u201cThey took me to lunch, which was very charming of them,\u201d Tuten recalled. \u201cI was very surprised that people I didn\u2019t know, had never heard of, out of the blue, came to me.\u201d Flattered, he soon turned to his Rolodex, securing many of the evening\u2019s cast of stars.<\/p>\n

The marathon, featuring some seventy readers, was the ideal form because of \u201cthe polyphonic qualities of the text,\u201d said M\u00f3nica de la Torre, senior editor of Bomb<\/em>. Those qualities also made the work newly resonant in the age of the crowdsourced encyclopedia article and the DJ\u2019s mash-up. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing how cyclical all this is,\u201d the writer Francisco Goldman said, adding that he saw in Tuten and other experimental fiction writers \u201ca permanent strain of literature that is always reinventing itself and that never achieves its ultimate object, which is to destroy literature.\u201d He was reminded of C\u00e9sar Aira and Jorge Luis Borges, each of whom Goldman said was an author \u201cdetermined to lay waste to all literature and leave only himself standing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The theme of laying waste, of ruins, is one common to the collage text: \u201cThese fragments I have shored against my ruins,\u201d wrote Eliot. And there is, arguably, a kind of violence in all collage or parody: the theft of intellectual property, the indignity of being shorn of context.<\/p>\n

But neither Tuten nor his admirers view The Adventures of Mao <\/em>in this way. For all its hyperkinetic novelty, a reverence for elders pervades the novel: Updike wrote that the book\u2019s ideological fabric was \u201cdeliciously complicated by Mr. Tuten\u2019s heavy reliance, for authority in aesthetic matters, upon fusty old wizards like Hawthorne and Pater.\u201d Tuten told me it was important to him to always include quotation marks when lifting passages from other works, rendering the appropriation obvious; the New Directions edition includes endnote citations. Here was an ecstasy, not an agony, of influence, and several attendees cited Jonathan Lethem\u2019s celebrated 2007 Harper\u2019s<\/em> collage-essay by that name. The Adventures of Mao <\/em>\u201cdestroyed in the gentlest way possible,\u201d said McCormack. \u201cIf it\u2019s the ruins, he at least made sure they were well preserved.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later, McCormack observed, Frederic had \u201ca keen grasp of \u201cthe new\u2019s relationship with the old.\u201d I bore that in mind as I looked around the room, which I began to notice had an unusual distribution of ages. In violation of a bell curve, the old and the young were best represented here; my eye moved from Tuten\u2019s gray-haired friends to those who had yet to acquire their first wrinkle. Partly this was a function of the evening\u2019s hosts: the fresh-faced staffers of The New Inquiry<\/em> were smirkingly profiled in last week\u2019s Times<\/em> as \u201cliterary cubs,\u201d and none of them was over twenty-six. But their affection for Tuten\u2019s novel in turn may have been a function of their youth. The relationship between grandparent and grandchild is often less fraught than the filial bond.<\/p>\n

Marathons are long; this one lasted around six hours. Someone in the audience quietly observed that the event was like Mao\u2019s Long March itself: grueling, occasionally tedious, with many lost along the way. By a little after 8 P.M., the room\u2019s faces often held some mixture of exhaustion, boredom, and determination. Yet near the bitter end, a few pages from the finish line, when Kurt Andersen bellowed, channeling Tuten\u2019s Mao, \u201cYouth is never reactionary; youth is progressive in time and hence always in the avant-garde, hence never<\/em> wrong in spirit, hence never <\/em>to be satirized, especially in a culture in which the reactionary forces are in power and have the guns\u201d\u2014the audience erupted into cheers.<\/p>\n

David Zax is a writer living in Brooklyn.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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