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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Autor principal: Josipovici, Gabriel, 1940-
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.
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  • 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.