Misc. Literature quote of the day. Discuss.

[Mark Kohut]

> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>> NewDirections NewDirections
>> “...after all, literature doesn’t exist anymore, only the example of it.”
>> —Roberto Bolaño, from BETWEEN PARENTHESE

Just shooting through my...nose....after reading a couple remarks about this 
book
online,--one aspect evidently writers and their classification and who doesn't 
fit
a clasification---Cesar Aria----the aphorism may mean something like............

writers no longer set out to write literature in any special form we used to 
know it, but
they just write, as w Bolano fact and the made-up and if it is good enough it 
becomes
an example of literature.................



----- Original Message ----
From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To: Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>; pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Thu, June 9, 2011 3:30:10 PM
Subject: Re: Misc. Literature quote of the day. Discuss.

On 6/9/2011 1:56 PM, Richard Ryan wrote:
> So literature only exists as synecdoche?  Even if it were a testable
> statement, so what?  Arguably the platonic notion of literature is
> *only* really meaningful in the presence of concrete manifestations.


Or maybe a particular novel, say, can only be a member of a class all 
novels.

In other words all novels are members of one another.

Does Bolano replace Sartre's "hell of other people" with the hell of 
other literature?

Has it become impossible to extricate an "individual" work from the 
generality of all else?

I presume Bolano would like to extricate his work from the hell of others.

Will someone please read his book and let us know.

P

> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>> NewDirections NewDirections
>> “...after all, literature doesn’t exist anymore, only the example of it.”
>> —Roberto Bolaño, from BETWEEN PARENTHESE
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