Demise of experimental fiction?

[Chris Broderick]

Whenever someone bemoans the death of some
approach/methodology of artistic creation, I'm
reminded of one of my favorite passages from one of my
favorite writers, Donald Barthelme:

Q: Is the novel dead?
A: Oh, yes. Very much so.
Q: What replaces it?
A: I should think that it is replaced by what existed
before it was invented?
Q: The same thing?
A: The same sort of thing.
Q: Is the bicycle dead?

-Chris


> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:30:13 +0100
> From: "Tore Rye Andersen" <torerye at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Demise of experimental fiction?
> 
> 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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