Review of an imaginary work.
The author invents an entire novel --characters, setting, plot and all. Then, instead of undertaking the long hardship of writing it, he/she writes a critical review of the book as though it already existed. Dig Borges:
The author invents an entire novel --characters, setting, plot and all. Then, instead of undertaking the long hardship of writing it, he/she writes a critical review of the book as though it already existed. Dig Borges:
"It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books --setting out in five hundred pages an idea that can be perfectly related orally in five minutes. The better way to go about it is to pretend that these books already exist, and offer a summary, a commentary on them." (foreword to Ficciones)
And which two worlds would that be?
ReplyDeleteThe world of composing a vast book and the world of composing short pieces? The short piece contains the vast book without being vast. That's what I mean.
ReplyDelete... OR is it??