Minimal Fictions

by Richard Kostelanetz

Concrete Fiction. Offered here for the first time in book form are important selections from Richard Kostelanetz's esteemed experimental texts. Minimal Fictions encompasses some 400 stories which, taken together, form a fictional world that is as visually surprising as it is verbally resonant. It should be emphasized that there is a clear difference between the minimalism practiced by Carver and Barthelme and the truly radical minimalism--analogous to that devised by musicians and painters in the 1960's--of someone like Richard Kostelanetz, who since 1970 has produced a number of highly original fictions in the forms of lines, numbers, one-, two-, and three-word sequences, and other severely attenuated elements. (Larry McCaffery).

104 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1994

Reviews

[jesse · Rating 2 out of 5]

Had this sitting around for a while, was interested in the first 2/3 of typographical poetic experimentation. If one were to explain to me how the book devolves for its second part i think i would have scoffed in disbelief. Unexpected, crude pornographic text, offensive in so many manners.

[Riss 🫶🏻☕️ · Rating 3 out of 5]

What a strange read, not in a bad way, but… strange.