Demise of experimental fiction?

[rich]

considering the amount of interesting work being churned out that is a
rather lazy accusation.

what they mean is mostly british-american fiction which seems a pretty
narrow area of coverage

alot of interesting stuff is being published outside of the UK and USA

I'm currently reading Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra--a large scale Mubai
noir bollywood punch up--characters take on mythic aspects of Hindu deities,
homeric in outlook,  a mandala  like structure, i'd say that's pretty
cool--echoes of joyce, chandler, rushdie, fleming as well

i also have wizard of the crow next up, a phantasmagorical look at African
political despotism and the fight against thereof

there's alot of experimenting--one just has to dig for it

rich

On 1/14/07, gp < wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The fourth N+1 magazine has bits about both the death of the novel and
> the death of the short story.  It's a great little publication, and I
> enjoy reading it.  I'll buy the next one when it comes out.
>
> But the long and the short of it is that people will always be
> claiming the death of something or other as far as art goes, when in
> fact it's always growth and change, though perhaps the state of the
> majority modern visual art is rather stagnant by my standards (then
> again, how many Rembrandts were there after all?).
>
> And in any case I'm not sure I consider AtD to be experimental
> fiction... maybe more Mark Z. Danielewski's stuff, though after
> hearing him read from Only Revolutions I have to say I'm not sure I'll
> ever pick it up (not do to the quality of the reading - it was great -
> more to the content).
>
> On 1/14/07, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Would someone do this guy a favour and send him a copy of AtD? His
> lament
> > for the loss of experimental fiction has a hollow ring to it, especially
> > considering that the pinnacle of experimental American fiction for him
> is
> > authors such as Brett Easton Ellis, Ben Marcus, Dennis Cooper, and
> Douglas
> > Coupland.
> >
> > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2101-2539779,00.html
> >
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