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How do you approach a novel that seeks to destabilize, even to negate, not only its value as literature, but the very force that drives its composition? Cortázar’s _Rayuela_ seems to find an equally radical solution to this revolutionary (for the time) proposition: it never begins.
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Writing about literature presents something of a thorny problem for creating dialogue on a site like this, where the majority of readers will be unfamiliar with the texts I hope to deal with, in a way that film, music and non-fiction are unproblematic. The solution requires either unreasonable effort on the part of the reader (to read the texts), synthesis on the part of the author (to provide all the details necessary without overwhelming), or mutual understanding on the part of both.
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Dear Oprah (and the American people): Shut up about James Frey already. You are all idiots.
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Some preliminary reflections on memory, historiography, narrative reliability, and La historia de Mayta.
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I believe that the fantasy and science-fiction genres are two of the most relevant genres to contemporary society. Science fiction/fantasy literature functions because it is, ostensibly, not about the real world.
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