all fiction is critical fiction
Posted in definitions, distinctions, Jean Rhys, Precursors, Wendy Walker, ‘I disdain “categories”’ on Mar 29th, 2012
To the Editor of the TLS Sir, Part of the task of the reviewer is to consider the book at hand as literature, that is, a written work that functions within a context. One part of that context is the history of earlier works that will illuminate the book under review. Context also reveals the […]
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 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 definitions, distinctions, influence, Tom La Farge, ‘I disdain “categories”’ on May 20th, 2011
Tom La Farge writes: Here’s what I’d say about critical fictions: that all writers are readers, that most writers are magpies, reading for the shiny threads they snatch up and carry off to their hoards, to be used in something they write sooner or later. You can’t call this “critical” on their part, even though […]
Posted in Charles Dickens, distinctions, echoes, influence, Joseph Conrad, Tom La Farge, ‘I disdain “categories”’ on May 18th, 2011
To discern the influence of an earlier text is not sufficient grounds to identify a literary work as a critical fiction (except in the broadest sense of the subtitle of this project, that all fiction is critical fiction and addresses earlier texts). To discern traces of influence in a literary work is analyzing seed and […]