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I think Joyce and Kafka have said the last word on each of the two forms they developed. There's no one to follow them. They're like cats which have licked the plate clean. You've got to dream up another dish if you're to be a writer.
- Henry Green
[The rest of the interview can be found here.]
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- Jacob Wren
- Jacob Wren makes literature, collaborative performances and exhibitions. His books include Polyamorous Love Song, Rich and Poor and Authenticity is a Feeling. As artistic codirector of the interdisciplinary group PME-ART he has co-created performances such as: En français comme en anglais, it's easy to criticize, Individualism Was A Mistake, The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information, Every Song I’ve Ever Written and Adventures can be found anywhere, même dans la répétition. PME-ART also presented the online conference Vulnerable Paradoxes and the related free PDF publication In response to Vulnerable Paradoxes. He is co-founder of the orchestra The Air Contains Honey who are currently working on their first album. His internet presence is often defined by a fondness for quotations.
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- A video and four texts on my collaboration with Tori Kudo while in residency at The Museum of Art, Kochi
- Jacob Wren + Raphaëlle de Groot / MIXOFF 2
- Paul Thek’s Teaching Notes
1 comment:
This Joyce and Kafka exceptionalism, *sigh* I'm surprised you're into it too.
Starting with the obvious: nobody reads them except to say they did, unless you're a literary major that is, or an aspiring cultist floating free without a guru who needs a Bloom's Day to center their lives.
And then there's Kafka, a concept author if there ever was one. Find a concept, write a long book to weave it in, and boom. Too bad the books are so goddamned boring that the point is lost on virtually anyone who could benefit from them.
Anyway, this is just a restating of Virgil talking up Homer. I suppose it's some irony that this Henry Green dude thinks there are no more stories to tell in a style, just like Virgil thinks there are no more epics. The intellectual myopia of those who sacrifice far too much time on one or two authors and then proclaim all future unwritten works dead is... well, myopic. lol
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