What ever happened to modernism?
The quality of today's literary writing arouses the strongest opinions. For novelist and critic Gabriel Josipovici, the contemporary novel in English is profoundly disappointing--a poor relation of its groundbreaking Modernist forebears. This agile and passionate book asks why. Modernism, Josip...
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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press,
c2010.
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Table of Contents:
- My whole body puts me on my guard against each word
- The oracles are silent
- What shall we have to drink in these deserts?
- Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom
- I heard the murmur and the murmuring sound
- It's a quick death, God help us all
- The marquise went out at five
- A universe for the first time bereft of all signposts
- The mutilated body was thrown back into the sea
- Fenande has left with a futurist
- A clown, perhaps, but an aspiring clown
- I would prefer not to
- The imitation of an action
- It takes talent to lead art that far astray
- Stories of modernism.