sukenick-rival-tradition

September 22, 2024

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What I’m writing is not in an avant-garde mode, and certainly not in an experimental mode, and certainly not in an ‘alternative’ mode. It comes out of a rival tradition, and it’s much older and much bigger than the tradition of realist fiction, which only started in the 18th Century. Whereas this rival tradition you can trace all the way back to the epics, Ovid, Rabelais, and even at the beginning of the realist tradition, to Laurence Sterne, and Diderot, and so on. This is a tradition that’s beginning, I think, to break loose again.

Thought:

“The most wonderful thing about music is that one can say everything in it, so that he who knows understands everything; and yet one hasn’t given away one’s secrets — the things one doesn’t admit even to oneself.”

Arnold Schoenberg

Christian Molenaar

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