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The Life of Fiction
Descriptions, critiques, interviews, letters, and collages are combined to provide a survey of fiction produced by twelve innovative American writers in the late 1960s and the 1970s
156 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 1977
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November 15, 2014The Life of Fiction has as its subjects Walter Abish, Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Jonathan Baumbach, Steve Katz, Clarence Major, Ishmael Reed, Gilbert Sorrentino, Michael Stephens, Ronald Sukenick, Hunter S. Thompson, and Kurt Vonnegut--and inwardly (outwardly) resembles with its penandink graphics (courtesy Roy R. Behrens) Hugh Kenner's The Counterfeiters, and textually-formally that pamphlet, jack green's fire the bastards!
A glance tells me the thing includes transcriptions of tape-recorded interviews; "capsule" reviews of representative works; letters; fragments; quotations; and other such things approximating perhaps the choral odes of the Attic Greeks as they have arrived or are arriving at the present or near it upon the tattered papyri: something of an ideogrammic approach, evaluating and reevaluating and making (and making of) meaning by way of juxtaposition and certain conceptual as well as formal adjacencies.
(hi-res, with stalking Hawk on horizon)
A glance tells me the thing includes transcriptions of tape-recorded interviews; "capsule" reviews of representative works; letters; fragments; quotations; and other such things approximating perhaps the choral odes of the Attic Greeks as they have arrived or are arriving at the present or near it upon the tattered papyri: something of an ideogrammic approach, evaluating and reevaluating and making (and making of) meaning by way of juxtaposition and certain conceptual as well as formal adjacencies.
(hi-res, with stalking Hawk on horizon)
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