What makes avant-garde avant-garde?

[Richard Romeo]

malign sed:
> > 
> Robert Coover has been pretty vocal about hypertext,
> interractive narration, etc.; Richard Romeo could
> probably talk about this some.
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I respect what Coover is involved with in teaching
e-lit at Brown. Much of what I've seen, heard however
which hasn't been much, has been truly awful, IMHO.
It's a different ball game and probably shouldn't be
compared to writing as we know it and read the
old-fashioned way.


> If, as has been said (although to my knowledge never
> definitively), Sebald was writing fiction, then I
> think what he was up to was different and powerful
> in > the sense you're asking about.  (It's powerful
in > any
> case.)  
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yeah, we lost a lot when Mr Sebald passed on.  Gunther
Grass's Crabwalk has sort've taken the mantle of the
Air War and Literature lectures of Sebald but in a
more traditional way.

> Generally, though, it seems we're at the end of a
> period of narrative experimentation or, if not the
> end, the most noted practictioners of it are getting
> old or are dead:  Barth, Barthelme, Nabokov, Borges,
> Coover, Calvino, Pynchon, Roth, Delillo; the usual
> suspects, the early postmoderns, in other words.
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I agree though some of the interesting writers I've
come across recently who are young are women:  kelly
link, shelly jackson, e.g.

 
> Garcia-Marquez was glorious, but the stuff by the
> writers he's inspired is generally pretty painful.
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can't wait for that first installment of GGM's
autobiography/memoirs to be translated into english.

rich (back after an hiatus)

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