10 Membranes
15/04/2009
“ the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
and Salman Rushdie; the alternative histories of Michael Chabon
and Philip Roth; the modernist allegories of José Saramago; the
political dystopias of Margaret Atwood and Kazuo Ishiguro; the
quasi-sci-fi scenarios of Jonathan Lethem and David Foster
Wallace; the urban mysticism of Haruki Murakami and Mark Z.
Danielewski; the meta-reality musings of Paul Auster and Italo
Calvino; the edgy futurism of J.G. Ballard and Iain Banks; and
the works of hosts of other writers. „
and Salman Rushdie; the alternative histories of Michael Chabon
and Philip Roth; the modernist allegories of José Saramago; the
political dystopias of Margaret Atwood and Kazuo Ishiguro; the
quasi-sci-fi scenarios of Jonathan Lethem and David Foster
Wallace; the urban mysticism of Haruki Murakami and Mark Z.
Danielewski; the meta-reality musings of Paul Auster and Italo
Calvino; the edgy futurism of J.G. Ballard and Iain Banks; and
the works of hosts of other writers. „
From Notes on Conceptual Fiction by Ted Goioia. This neatly defines for me a genre dear to my heart, a sort of amorphous literary slipstream kind of thing.
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