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The problem with Michael Cunningham's new novel. - By Meghan O'Rourke - Slate Magazine
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"Briefing News & Politics Arts Life Business & Tech Science Podcasts & Video Blogs HOME / the highbrow : Examining culture and the arts. I Celebrate Walt Michael Cunningham takes on Whitman in his new novel. By Meghan O'Rourke Posted Tuesday, June 7, 2005, at 10:46 AM ET Remarkably enough, Michael Cunningham's 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours —a rewriting of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway —wasn't just a parlor trick. It actually illuminated Woolf's revolutionary study of postwar English society, while offering its own resonant portrait of the devastation of gay artistic communities by AIDS. It was, you might say, a justified act of literary vivisection: Cunningham carved up another's body (of work) and peered into it, to see what he, and by implication we, could learn—not only about the remains on the table but about ourselves. The critical and commercial success of The Hours heralded a wave of historically self-conscious novels about writers and artists, among them Colm Tóibín's * The Master (Henry James), Kate Moses' Wintering (Sylvia Plath), Colum McCann's Dancer (Rudolf Nureyev), and Karen Joy Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club . These days even detective novels are following suit, as evidenced by a new Louisa May Alcott mystery series. If ours is the age of what the New York Times called "literary cannibalism," Cunningham is its avatar. PRINT DISCUSS E-MAIL RSS RECOMMEND... SINGLE PAGE Facebook MySpace Mixx Digg Reddit del.icio.us Furl Ma.gnolia Sphere StumbleUpon CLOSE In 2003, Cunningham told an interviewer, "What I must not do is write 'The Hours' again." But Specimen Days , his first novel since the Pulitzer, looks an awful lot like The Hours . Like its predecessor, it recounts three stories set in three different eras, all of which are presided over by a literary genius—one who can be found just a little to the left of Woolf on the library shelf: Walt Whitman. But there is one notable differe"
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