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change the psychic mechanism which makes the writing of fiction
possible.
It
is a matter of releasing a burst of creativity which shakes the
real world (the classified world, the named world, the known world), and
consequently releasing a true hallucinatory energy .
OUT
releases such energy!
Indeed, if art (and I am using this useful word to designate all unfunc–
tional activities) had as its only goal to make us see the world better, it
would be nothing else but a technique of analysis, an ersatz science (and
it is indeed what realistic art has been all about). But in seeking to
produce the something else which is in the thing, it is an entirely new
epistemology which is created. This unlimited, unrestricted work frees us
of all accepted notions of hierarchy: true perception, fixed nomination,
credible association.
OUT
is such a work which changes our perception
of the world.
OUT
gets rid of social reality as a stable, organizable,
recognizable entity.
OUT
demolishes any pretention we may have of
perceiving the world as being rational, safe, and apprehensib le.
OUT
helps us to get OUT. Therefore, you WASICHUS out there! Go get it!
It's
OUT,
by Ron Sukenick!
I
Raymond Federman
COMIC TERROR
THE NOVELS OF JOHN HAWKES
by
Donald
J.
Greiner
Dr . Greiner shows that Hawkes is
primarily a comic novelist who utilizes
the detatchment of humor to control the
terror and violence he evokes in novels like THE CANNIBAL
and SECOND SKIN.
Dr. Greiner draws on Hawkes' published interviews and criticisms
to clarif'l both his literary technique and his uses of comed'l. And
through his detailed discussion of each novel, the author
illustrates and analyzes the novelist's conception of fiction.
" The book is especially useful in examining Hawkes' humor in
the light of traditional theories of comedy (e.g., Meredith and
Bergson) and in describing the author's conscious goal of
disrupting traditional fictiona.1 forms in the face of an audience
demand for verisimilitude." Bert C. Bach, LIBRARY JOURNAL
260 pages, index, checkIist
$7.50
Memphis State University Press
Memphis, Tennessee
38152
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