sukenick-avant-garde

September 22, 2024

I don’t think the avant-garde applies in this country, anyhow. I think it’s a whole different kind of thing that goes on here. Because the continental avant-garde was, first of all, elitist. It depended on the existence of a literary class, which we don’t have here, not in the same sense as you have there. It implies a militant approach, it implies leaders and followers. What we have here is much more diffuse throughout the country at large.

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“I’ve always been a refusenik, beginning with refusing the suburb that I grew up in, refusing the kind of work that was provided for me as a kind of fate, refusing the war in Vietnam, refusing the beginnings of a plastic corporate culture.”

Curtis White

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