Vivisections.

Oblong 8vo. [90] pp. Profusely illustrated. Magenta printed wrappers; some fading. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Very good. Author's first book. "Lee Siegel is one of the most difficult writers to locate on a map of contemporary American fiction. At a time when novelists seem to be lining up to distance themselves from the self-reflexivity associated with postmodernism - a conservative retreat that's perhaps inspired by Jonathan Franzen's quiet-family drama The Corrections (2001) - Siegel's books unashamedly explore the involutions of self-referring narrative forms, and celebrate their ancestry in such proto-postmodernists as Laurence Sterne and Denis Diderot. But while Siegel seems to stand apart from the main currents of contemporary fiction, his three recent novels have often been highly praised." Stephen J. Burn, Anatomizing the Language of Love: An Interview with Lee Siegel. 2006. SIDELIGHTS: Lee Siegel, a professor of religion and a stage magician, once told CA: "India is a metaphor. Writing is what interests me writing and magic. They are the same. And scholarship is a literary genre; I am exploring the poetics of scholarship."

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Publisher: Goliards Press, 1973.

Year: 1973

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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