Premium Content The Way to Enlightenment: Production and Consumption in Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine
By Anonymous - January 26, 2004
Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine suspends time for both the protagonist and the reader, with the escalator serving as a symbol of the productive and consumptive postmodern society. Because of the escalator, the story's narrator and other contemporary office workers have more time to devote to their work and are thus more productive. And while some…
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