Charlie Jane Anders Reviews Mark Leyner's 'Contradundancy'

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Below this initial line of mine comes the introductory paragraph by Charlie Jane Anders in her review of Mark Leyner's Gone With the Mind (NYT, March 25, 2016):

An absurdist autobiography is either a contradiction in terms or a redundancy, depending on how you look at it. Either the purpose of an autobiography is to make sense of the writer's life, in which case absurdity would be a severe impediment -- or else life itself is absurd, and all autobiographies are too. In his new autobiographical novel, "Gone With the Mind," Mark Leyner seems to split the difference: He makes sense of his life by unpacking just how ridiculous it is to be alive.

"Ridiculous!" one might shout, and the subject-object of one's most intimate fear of nothingness doth vanish into nothingness, gone with the mind, that title-bound cap-W of Wend or Wined over-turned or over-wound -- so it's Sayonara, Cynara . . .

(For the overwhelmed among my readers, this blog entry is intended as a positive remark upon the positive review by Charlie Jane Anders of Mark Leyner's book.)