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THE POETICS OF ANN QUIN, by David Vichnar Ann Quin (1937-1973) emerged from her troubled childhood—marked by her father’s abandonment of the family and the highly traumatic experience of the upbringing, despite her atheism, received at a Roman Catholic convent—with a severely impaired mental health which, following a series of nervous breakdowns she periodically suffered … Continue reading
MARK DANIELEWSKI’S HOUSE OF LEAVES AS HYPERMEDIA, by David Vichnar. First published in VLAK 4 (September 2013): 22-29. The cause célèbre surrounding Kenneth Goldsmith’s “Printing Out the Internet” project can be regarded as the (unecological) reversion from screen and bytes to paper and ink, as the (nonsensical) revenge of text upon hypertext, or as a belated symbolic … Continue reading
On ALEXANDER TROCCHI by Andrew Hodgson, first published in Berfrois, August 26, 2013. Much is written of Alexander Trocchi’s “profound nihilism”. It is often argued that in his rejection and modification of language and narrative; work and reality (through taking heroin): he “willed death”; “willed to nothingness”. In his “serious novels” Young Adam (1954) and Cain’s Book (1960) … Continue reading
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