Dmitri Nabokov, requiesact in pace ...

[Paul Mackin]

Oops I answered the wrong post--it was the Wallace one I was meditating 
upon.

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On 2/26/2012 10:06 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:
> On 2/25/2012 5:01 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:
>> http://en.ria.ru/culture/20120224/171497586.html
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> Interesting, Dave. Jonathan Franzen is quoted on Wallace and I think 
> JF might be a good clue to what has been happening to literary writing 
> in the past ten years or so.  I remember reading somewhere that JF 
> titled his latest "Freedom" to reflect a resolution he had made for 
> himself.  This is probably inaccurate paraphrasing, but the gist of of 
> it was that he was tired of what the critics has made of his previous 
> novel, and from then on he was going to write exactly the way it felt 
> right to HIM.
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> More broadly it seems like the idea is that that it is no longer 
> necessary (if it ever was) to be ironic all the time (a Wallace 
> complaint)--sincere and literal are OK now and then.  Similarly the 
> postmodern/modern distinction is passe--mix and match is quite 
> acceptable.  In critical circles now, oscillation seems to be the 
> descriptive word.  According to Widipedia, the derivation of 
> metamodernism is metaxy and Franzen may be an example.
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