Re: James Keilty's Prashad

Jim Henry wrote:
>"James Keilty was a San Francisco city planner on the edge of a circle of
>fifties, sixties and seventies writers that included Robert Duncan and
>Richard
>Brautigan, many of whom were of an experimental bent.  A frighteningly
>literate gay aesthete, he died of lung cancer in the early nineties.  More
>obsessive than most, however, Keilty went so far as to invent his own
>language, complete with its own grammar and vocabulary, as well as an
>imaginary country and a culture to go with it. He wrote stories and folk
>plays
>in his invented language, Prashad.  He began a lengthy novel in the
>language. (snip)
>...the somewhat Slavic-sounding lines."
>
I vaguely remember seeing one of his books, years ago-- I was attracted by
the script, which indeed looks Arabic or Persian. I guess because of that
impression, I felt the language would sound like Farsi (which of course I've
never heard........). Don't remember if I bought and read the book or
not........

>There's a brief comment on one of Keilty's short stories in this
>book review from 1975 by Gerald Jonas:
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/08/09/specials/disch-sun.html
Aha, fine commentaries on two of Le Guin's best !! Quite likely that review
prompted me to get "The Dispossessed". (I've been a faithful buyer of the
Sunday NYT for almost 60 years, minus a 2+ year hiatus in the Army. Though
nowadays, with so much of it online, it's become the World's Most Expensive
Crossword Puzzle.)