Marc Nash | What Makes Experimental Fiction Experimental? @MarcNash | Uploaded March 2021 | Updated October 2024, 36 minutes ago.
Inspired by two videos by Bob The Bookerer youtube.com/channel/UCo9wDCo3u3J5Sky9skhVkXA I talk about 16 features which may help us towards a definition of just what experimental fiction might be.
The features:
1) Intertextuality
2) Language
3) Stream of Consciousness
4) Representations of other non-linear modes of thinking
5) Architectural writing / Geometric / Visual layout
6) Reality / Perception
7) Time / Memory
8) "Fiction"
9) Metafiction
10) Unreliable narrator
11) Oulipo
12) Collage
13) Autofiction
14) Syntactical / Rhythmic
15) Polyphonic voices
16) Other
Books discussed:
1) William Gaddis "The Recognitions", William Burroughs' Cut-Up Method, Jeff Noon "Cobralingus"
2) Ben Marcus "The Age Of Wire And String", Jonathan Lethem "Motherless Brooklyn"
4) Rebecca Watson "Little Scratch", David Peace "The Damned United"
5) Mark Danielewski "House Of Leaves", Raymond Federman "Take It Or Leave It", Gert Jonke "Geometric Regional Novel"
6) Robert Coover "Lucky Pierre", Alain Robbe-Grilet "Jealousy"
7) BS Johnson "The Unfortunates"
8) David Markson "This Is Not A Novel & Other Novels", Brian Fawcett "Cambodia: A Book For Those Who Find Television Too Slow"
9) John Barth "Coming Soon", Meena Kandasamy "Exquisite Cadavers", William H Gass "Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife"
10) Marc Nash "A,B&E"
11) George Perec "Avoid", Mark Dunn "Ella Minnow Pea", Tony White "Fountain In The Forest"
12) Curtis White "Requiem"
13) Annie Ernaux "The Years", WG Sebald "The Rings Of Saturn"
14) Mathias Enard "Zone", Blake Butler "Ever"
15) Vanessa Place "La Medusa", David Peace "GB84", Max Porter "Lanny"
16) Alejandro Zambra "Multiple Choice", Dan Holloway "Evie And Guy"
Language/Typology Marc Nash "Three Dreams In The Key Of G"
Papertrail Podcast - Where I talk about David Markson "This Is Not A Novel" Jeff Noon "Cobralingus" and David Peace "The Damned United" papertrailpodcast.libsyn.com/037-marc-nash
Meena Kundasamy "Exquisite Cadavers" youtube.com/watch?v=uwMlQArOig0&feature=youtu.be
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You can pre-order my new novel "Stories We Tell Our Children" (also available for international shipping) from here uk.bookshop.org/books/stories-we-tell-our-children/9781912436941 I will be talking more about it nearer its publication date of 15th July
Inspired by two videos by Bob The Bookerer youtube.com/channel/UCo9wDCo3u3J5Sky9skhVkXA I talk about 16 features which may help us towards a definition of just what experimental fiction might be.
The features:
1) Intertextuality
2) Language
3) Stream of Consciousness
4) Representations of other non-linear modes of thinking
5) Architectural writing / Geometric / Visual layout
6) Reality / Perception
7) Time / Memory
8) "Fiction"
9) Metafiction
10) Unreliable narrator
11) Oulipo
12) Collage
13) Autofiction
14) Syntactical / Rhythmic
15) Polyphonic voices
16) Other
Books discussed:
1) William Gaddis "The Recognitions", William Burroughs' Cut-Up Method, Jeff Noon "Cobralingus"
2) Ben Marcus "The Age Of Wire And String", Jonathan Lethem "Motherless Brooklyn"
4) Rebecca Watson "Little Scratch", David Peace "The Damned United"
5) Mark Danielewski "House Of Leaves", Raymond Federman "Take It Or Leave It", Gert Jonke "Geometric Regional Novel"
6) Robert Coover "Lucky Pierre", Alain Robbe-Grilet "Jealousy"
7) BS Johnson "The Unfortunates"
8) David Markson "This Is Not A Novel & Other Novels", Brian Fawcett "Cambodia: A Book For Those Who Find Television Too Slow"
9) John Barth "Coming Soon", Meena Kandasamy "Exquisite Cadavers", William H Gass "Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife"
10) Marc Nash "A,B&E"
11) George Perec "Avoid", Mark Dunn "Ella Minnow Pea", Tony White "Fountain In The Forest"
12) Curtis White "Requiem"
13) Annie Ernaux "The Years", WG Sebald "The Rings Of Saturn"
14) Mathias Enard "Zone", Blake Butler "Ever"
15) Vanessa Place "La Medusa", David Peace "GB84", Max Porter "Lanny"
16) Alejandro Zambra "Multiple Choice", Dan Holloway "Evie And Guy"
Language/Typology Marc Nash "Three Dreams In The Key Of G"
Papertrail Podcast - Where I talk about David Markson "This Is Not A Novel" Jeff Noon "Cobralingus" and David Peace "The Damned United" papertrailpodcast.libsyn.com/037-marc-nash
Meena Kundasamy "Exquisite Cadavers" youtube.com/watch?v=uwMlQArOig0&feature=youtu.be
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You can pre-order my new novel "Stories We Tell Our Children" (also available for international shipping) from here uk.bookshop.org/books/stories-we-tell-our-children/9781912436941 I will be talking more about it nearer its publication date of 15th July
