Fwd: The Works

[David Andignac]

>I find the works to be (in published order):
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>1. Young
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>2. Dark
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>3. Big
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>4. Personal
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>I think that many artist progress through these phases, often 
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> alternating between big and personal with a little experimental thrown 
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> in.
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>Every artist aspires to new heights in each and every work-seems to me I 
>read in Ellman's bio of Joyce that a colleague of his claimed this 
>distinction for Joyce and Joyce only (don't know if the progression above 
>would apply to JJ-Finnegans Wake Personal?)  Even Pynchon doesn't have 
>this distinction IMHO-Vineland was not a earth shaker good as it is.  Any 
>authors come to mind who might have this distinction?
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Chaucer comes to mind. His work appears to build in complexity through his 
work culminating in his final and unfinished work The Canterbury Tales.

However, he is not actually a novelist.

David A.