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 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 […]