NP article by Coover

[Cjhurtt6 at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/11/00 7:09:51 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
madness at airmail.net writes:

<< Here are the links for Coover's NYTBR articles on hyperfiction.  The first
 one, The End of Books, is great reading.
 
 http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/27/specials/coover-end.html
  >>

"For all its passing charm, the traditional novel, which took center stage at 
the same time that industrial mercantile democracies arose -- and which Hegel 
called "the epic of the middle-class world" -- is perceived by its would-be 
executioners as the virulent carrier of the patriarchal, colonial, canonical, 
proprietary, hierarchical and authoritarian values of a past that is no 
longer with us."

funny stuff. look out! i'm being oppressed by a book!