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Ladataan... McSweeney's Issue 31 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Vikings, Monks, Philosophers, Whores: Old Forms UnearthedTekijä: Dave Eggers
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. I loved this McSweeney's. The whole theme is forgotten literary genres. These include Pantoum Poetry, Whore Dialogue, Legendary Saga, Biji, Nivola, Senryu, Socratic Dialogue, Graustarkian Romance, and Consuetudinary. The pantoums were great, in a puzzle sort of way. the best one I think was Crackpot Arctic Octopus by Nicky Beer. Douglas Coupland's biji Survivor was very funny and typical of his writing. David Thomson has a great Socratic Dialogue featuring some great characters: Susan Sontag, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and Orson Welles. They all debate the qualities of Citizen Kane at an after life cafe. Out of all the stories, the best is the new legendary saga by Will Sheff of the band Okkervil River. This saga uses the Icelandic saga The Tale of Ragnar's Sons as a format and is called Black Metal Circle Saga. It does what most sagas do, which is basically following a lineage of heros, tracing their battles and exploits, usually resulting in lots of people dying in battle. There are also usually some dwarfs or elves involved and a magic weapon here or there. Basically its a fantasy novel from 700 years ago. Sheff's saga has chapters titled Blood on the Ice, War Pigs, and Let's Fucking Die or We're Gonna Burn This Place to the Ground. Reading it was quite a treat. The only piece I could have lived without was the consuetudinary by Shelley Jackson. The manual is based on a fictional church, The Church of the Dead Letter. The whole thing was hard to follow which is disappointing because the idea of consuetudinary is interesting, its just this fictional example was just too far out there to keep my interest. näyttää 4/4 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Kuuluu näihin sarjoihinSisältää nämä:Survivor (tekijä: Douglas Coupland)
Barthelme said that "The Novel of the Soil is dead, as are Expressionism, Impressionism, Futurism, Imagism, Vorticism, Regionalism, Realism, the Kitchen Sink School of Drama, the Theatre of the Absurd, the Theatre of Cruelty, Black Humor, and Gongorism." But he left out, pointedly, the Biji, the Nivola, the Graustarkian Romance, the Consuetudinary, the Whore's Dialogue, the Fornaldarsaga, and the eighties, which are not dead; they are all in McSweeney's 31, as rendered by Douglas Coupland, Joy Williams, John Brandon, Shelley Jackson, Mary Miller, and Will Sheff, along with other fugitive genres recaptured by our finest writers, as part of a project to bring them back alive (except for the eighties, there is actually nothing about the eighties). In an oversized format, with annotations, illustrations, and pantoums, Issue 31 aims to introduce you to all the genres you never knew you loved. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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In my mind, while perhaps historically interesting, these literary forms are dead for a reason.
Bonus is a tabloid size magazine folded into the end pages with excerpts from three McSweeney's books being published at the time, Bill Cotter's "Fever Chart," Jessica Anthony's "The Convalescent," and James Hannaham's "God Says No." ( )