all fiction is critical fiction
Posted in Collision, definitions, Gene Wolfe, Technique on Sep 25th, 2013
Well this certainly suggests a working definition of the critical fiction : “Is and is not; this is a common Wolfe modality, here referring to the way all these stories are both imitations and commentaries on the originals, or else they are new creations that simply interact on the side with some other literature. Either […]
Posted in distinctions, Technique, Wendy Walker, ‘I disdain “categories”’ on Mar 29th, 2012
My Man and other Critical Fictions by Wendy Walker and Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine were reviewed by Ben Jeffery in the TLS for 24 February. Pieces of pieces BEN JEFFERY Sara Levine TREASURE ISLAND!!! 176pp. Europa. Paperback, $15. 978 1 60945 016 8 Wendy Walker MY MAN AND OTHER CRITICAL FICTIONS. 138pp. Temporary Culture. $22.50. […]
Posted in definitions, examples, Technique, Wendy Walker, ‘I disdain “categories”’ on Nov 5th, 2011
My Man and other Critical Fictions Wendy Walker. Temporary Culture, $22.50 (138p) ISBN 978-0-9764660-7-9 A critical fiction, as publisher Henry Wessells explains in his introduction to this collection of eight eclectic tales, is “a work of art that explicitly declares itself as a critique of another work of literature.” Mixing collage and Burroughs-esque cut-up technique […]
Posted in definitions, examples, Technique, Tom Whalen, ‘I disdain “categories”’ on Jul 3rd, 2011
On Critical Fiction : Tom Whalen interviewed by Henry Wessells Tom Whalen is a novelist, poet, critic, short story writer, and (since 2008) visiting professor of film at the Staatliche Akademie der Künste in Stuttgart — his essay on Lola rennt (1998; Run Lola Run, 200) is wide ranging in its allusions and compelling […]
Posted in Collision, definitions, distinctions, Jorge Luis Borges, Wendy Walker, ‘I disdain “categories”’ on Jun 14th, 2011
This post on the CF Forum takes the form of a brief self interview by Wendy Walker and Henry Wessells, on the subject of the writings of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (with citations from his work). What aspects of the writings of Borges are most relevant to the critical fiction? Wessells : Extreme concision, […]
Posted in Collision, Guy Davenport, Technique, ‘I disdain “categories”’ on May 15th, 2011
“ I would go so far as to say that all modern writing is about some other text, and that this is so much the case that many writers are guardedly furtive about it, while knowing that their only hope of meaning is in our ultimately finding that other text. ” — Guy Davenport, “The Critic as […]
Posted in Allusion, Marcel Schwob, Robert W. Chambers, Technique, ‘I disdain “categories”’ on May 12th, 2011
‘ Is the door like the threshold ? Is the grate like the fire ? Is the mask like the face ? ’ Today, « criticalfiction.net » is pleased to publish an original work of critical fiction : — — — Follow the link to read the story, The Man in the Yellow Mask by Lucien Verval (pdf with illustrations : 1.7 Mb) ; « criticalfiction.net » […]
Posted in Allusion, Precursors, ‘I disdain “categories”’ on May 10th, 2011
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Thomas Dilworth, writing in the TLS for 22 April 2011, discusses Keats’ poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, written in May 1819 (and shown above in the first edition of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. […]