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Danielle Mémoire

Teoksen Public Reading Followed by Discussion (French Literature) tekijä

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Sisältää nimet: Danielle Mémoire, Danielle Mémoire

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Yleistieto

Syntymäaika
1947
Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
France

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Public Reading Followed by Discussion Tekijä: Danielle Memoire
This experimental fiction purports to be about an author giving a public reading of a work in progress followed by a Q&A. It opens with some discussion between two characters: audience members? the author and the interviewer? The fact that the author is also the reader, in that he, or she (even that is not entirely clear), is the one reading the work aloud furthers ambiguates who is doing what. This unclarity sets the scene; the dialog ends with “End quote,” making us think that this was a section of the work being publicly read by the author. But in fact, the camera pulls back, so to speak, enlarging the frame and making each section another Russian nesting doll, repeatedly, until it’s impossible to really determine who’s saying what, who the real author is, or how we fit in as readers actually reading the words on the page. The conceit is clever, and if there’s more than that to this book, I’m afraid that, unlike the audience member in the dialog below, I don’t have any excuse for feeling stupid:

— At the risk of sounding stupid, I have to admit that the business about multiple readers went right over my head, too.

— There are multiple readers, and at the same time only one. At the end of each section, there will have been multiple readers, but there’s always only one reader who’s just finished giving a reading.

— Aha! That clears it up. I feel much better now.

— You also had a very good excuse: you don’t have the text in front of you.


I have reason to suspect that there was more going on in this book that I couldn’t be bothered to “bend my efforts toward”:

[E]ach puppet was to be reused in accordance with a pattern of succession it would have behooved the audience to bend its efforts toward accurately predicting.


Overall, I appreciated the wit but didn’t come away with much else.… (lisätietoja)
 
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Charon07 | Feb 3, 2024 |
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Teokset
12
Jäseniä
19
Suosituimmuussija
#609,294
Arvio (tähdet)
3.0
Kirja-arvosteluja
1
ISBN:t
12
Kielet
1