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REALISM’S LAST WORD

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*Excerpt from THE ORGAN-GRINDER’S MONKEY: CULTURE AFTER THE AVANT-GARDE, by Louis Armand (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 1013). Photo: Philippe Sollers in Shanghai, 1974 (by Julia Kristeva).   “From two recent novels, a story emerges about the future for the Anglophone novel.” So begins an article by Zadie Smith for the New York Review of Books, November … Continue reading →

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