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The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium (1975)

de Harry Mathews

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Composed of a series of letters between a husband and wife, ?"The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium"?is a brilliant comedy about love and longing, dashed hopes and frustrations, and trying to make connections. Newly wedded Zachary McCaltex (a librarian in Miami) and Twang Panattapam (originally from the Southeast-Asian country of Pan-Nam, but residing in Italy) try to trace the whereabouts of a treasure supposedly lost off the coast of Florida in the sixteenth century, while navigating a relationship separated by an ocean as well as their different cultures. In the end, the postal service may be responsible for what gets lost (including Zachary's sanity) along the way.… (més)
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  almigwin | Nov 22, 2009 |
I was drawn to the book by a passing reference in the London Review of Books to The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium as "an epistolary novel and a comic masterpiece." "Surely such things no longer existed?" I asked myself and clicked on the "Order now" button. The book is as original as its storyline isn't: on the face of it, it's an exchange of letters between a fat and aging American and his young, svelte and exotic wife. Their plan is to find a long-lost treasure of the Medici family. While the husband is languishing in the sizzling heat of Florida, trying to infiltrate the higher echelons of Miami society in order to secure funding for their expedition, his adorable wife is rummaging through European archives for ancient manuscripts, looking for clues about the treasure's present location. Can they find the treasure? Will their love stand the tests of physical separation and assorted European temptations? If you are put off already, don't be. Contrary to its apparent silliness, the book is delightfully clever and zany. A postmodern send-up of historical mystery novels, it's full of made-up erudition, brilliant language play and sham anthropology. A one of a kind. ( )
  St.Semaphore | Dec 4, 2007 |
"What is that 'Waste Land'? It's perhaps a nick name of Arizona?" ( )
  ramage | Sep 9, 2005 |
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Composed of a series of letters between a husband and wife, ?"The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium"?is a brilliant comedy about love and longing, dashed hopes and frustrations, and trying to make connections. Newly wedded Zachary McCaltex (a librarian in Miami) and Twang Panattapam (originally from the Southeast-Asian country of Pan-Nam, but residing in Italy) try to trace the whereabouts of a treasure supposedly lost off the coast of Florida in the sixteenth century, while navigating a relationship separated by an ocean as well as their different cultures. In the end, the postal service may be responsible for what gets lost (including Zachary's sanity) along the way.

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