![]() ![]() The name combines references to a musical and to a literary giant: to the eccentric bebop pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, whose innovative style influenced scores of Jazz musicians, 1 and to the complex modernist writer Ralph Ellison, who with a single novel challenged the standards of African American writing. Call me Monk,” he writes, and the echoes crisscross each other in fascinating and bewildering waves (Everett, Erasure 3). 1 To complete the allusive melee, we later learn that his mother’s maiden name was Parker (Everett, E (.)ġ At the end of the first paragraph of his secret journal, the author/narrator of Percival Everett’s thirteenth novel introduces himself with a statement that rings several bells at once: “I am Thelonious Ellison. ![]()
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