In Form, Digressions on the Act of FictionSouthern Illinois University Press, 1985 - 247 psl. Formmust never be taken for granted, but must be created as the work itself is shaped: "The writer works not from a priori ideas about what will happen and what form it will take, but in and through the text." Sukenick, one of our most original contemporary novelists, describes these essays as "the comments of a fiction writer about writing, not those of a critic on what has been written. They are more or less reports on experience--those of one engaged in the ongoing struggle with the angel of form, rather than of one studying its consequences from a cool distance: 'in form, ' not 'on form.'" The difficulty of creative works no longer accessible to traditional reading habits has threatened us with an age of criticism in which interpretation has become more imposing than invention. One of the tasks of modern fiction, therefore, is "to displace, energize, and re-embody its criticism--literally to reunite at with our experience of the text." |
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... reality we can believe — which , of course , is not to say it is untrue . It moves us from a state in which we cannot believe something about reality to one in which we can believe something about reality , and conse- quently puts us ...
... reality , and in fact the " pressure of reality " demands that we resist it with credible fictions ( NA , pp . 22-23 ) . 14 The fiction , so qualified , is a credible version of reality . It is neither reality itself nor a projection of ...
... reality despite its inherent evil . Since this experience of ideal relation with reality is by na- ture fugitive , there can be no formulation of it that one can repeat to summon it up ; nothing avails but improvisation . And when ...
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Twelve Digressions Toward a Study of Composition | 3 |
Thirteen Digressions | 16 |
Ten Digressions | 34 |
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