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Known Unknowns: Against Creativity

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You could both cry.” – Gilbert Sorrentino,. Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things. Thursday, November 29, 2012. The below was a “provocation” I delivered at the conference NonfictionNow. Held last weekend in Melbourne for a panel (dubiously) entitled "Public Sphere Literary Criticism as Creative Nonfiction.". The main contention of this panel, as I understand it, is that literary criticism in general, and book reviewing in particular, should be viewed as a creative. But the genius’s ability to gen...

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Known Unknowns: On the Arriere-Garde

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You could both cry.” – Gilbert Sorrentino,. Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things. Wednesday, March 28, 2012. That is, the. Book, representing the end. Of books, in every sense of the word".'. William Marx, 'The 20th Century: Century of the Arriere-Gardes? The Avant-Garde, Modernism and the Fate of a Continent,. Eds Sascha Bru et al. Posted by Emmett Stinson. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Is the title of my collection of short stories published by. BUY THE EBOOK OF KNOWN UNKNOWNS. By Juan Jose Saer.

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Known Unknowns: My Struggle (Vol. 1) By Karl Ove Knausgaard

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You could both cry.” – Gilbert Sorrentino,. Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things. Saturday, August 18, 2012. My Struggle (Vol. 1) By Karl Ove Knausgaard. The first volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle. Is simultaneously very easy and virtually impossible to do justice to in a book review. On the one hand, this is a novel whose very name aims for provocation: it's Norwegian title, Min Kamp,. Explicitly echoes Hitler's Mein Kampf. Demonstrates how universal cultural experiences in the first world ...

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Known Unknowns: May 2011

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You could both cry.” – Gilbert Sorrentino,. Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things. Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Lost Classics: The Recognitions. I’ll note this from the outset: not only is William Gaddis’s The Recognitions. Is 956-pages long. Much of the writing in it is what would be considered difficult (inspiring Jonathan Franzen’s essay ‘Mr. Difficult’. About Gaddis), and it’s the kind of book wherein the punch-lines to jokes are quite literally. The novel does, however, have a plot; The Recognitions.

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Known Unknowns: 'Graham Greene Is The World's Greatest Second-Rate Novelist'

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You could both cry.” – Gilbert Sorrentino,. Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things. Friday, August 3, 2012. Graham Greene Is The World's Greatest Second-Rate Novelist'. Below is a video of a talk I gave the other month on Graham Greene's The Quiet American,. A book that I am ultimately not fond of (for reasons that I articulate in the video). Also, N.B. the clip assumes you have read the novel, so there are massive spoilers about the ending from the very start. Posted by Emmett Stinson. By Juan Jose Saer.

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Known Unknowns: On the Figure of the Aporia

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You could both cry.” – Gilbert Sorrentino,. Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things. Tuesday, January 17, 2012. On the Figure of the Aporia. 8220;Why this language, which does not fortuitously resemble that of negative theology? How to justify the choice of negative form (aporia). To designate a duty that, through the impossible or the impracticable, nonetheless announces itself in an affirmative fashion? Jacques Derrida, Aporias,. Posted by Emmett Stinson. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Known Unknowns: August 2011

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You could both cry.” – Gilbert Sorrentino,. Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things. Tuesday, August 30, 2011. 8220;Given that the thymos. That has been conditioned by civilization is the psychological location of what Hegel depicted as a striving for recognition,. Usually the thymotic impulse is connected to the wish to find one's. Worth resonating in the other. This desire could easily be an instruction manual for teaching oneself. Peter Sloterdijk, Rage and Time. Posted by Emmett Stinson. In 1979, this...

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Known Unknowns: August 2012

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You could both cry.” – Gilbert Sorrentino,. Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things. Saturday, August 18, 2012. My Struggle (Vol. 1) By Karl Ove Knausgaard. The first volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle. Is simultaneously very easy and virtually impossible to do justice to in a book review. On the one hand, this is a novel whose very name aims for provocation: it's Norwegian title, Min Kamp,. Explicitly echoes Hitler's Mein Kampf. Demonstrates how universal cultural experiences in the first world ...

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Known Unknowns: 'The Problem with the New Yorker Story Is That It's Too Well Written'

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You could both cry.” – Gilbert Sorrentino,. Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things. Monday, July 30, 2012. The Problem with the New Yorker Story Is That It's Too Well Written'. Immediately. But these interviews also provide some really useful insights into his writing, and they also emphasise the continuity between Sorrentino's work and the 'homemade'. But despite engaging with the simple, Sorrentino's work remains both philosophically dense (it is not inappropriate, for example, to note a resonance betw...

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Known Unknowns: July 2011

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You could both cry.” – Gilbert Sorrentino,. Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things. Thursday, July 21, 2011. Sergio De La Pava Interview. I missed this a few weeks ago, but Sergio De La Pava has given his first-ever interview. NB I found out about this through the excellent blog, Conversational Reading. Which, really, is a site worth visiting on a daily basis.). Posted by Emmett Stinson. Thursday, July 7, 2011. Lost: The Lost Scrapbook. Posted by Emmett Stinson. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).