The first story is "Artur and Isabella" by Croatian writer Daša Drndić, from her book DOPPELGANGER (@NewDirections).
Drndić created modernistic fiction & radio plays mixing bureaucratic documents & dreamlike events to explore her tragic sense of history.https://thepointmag.com/literature/artur-and-isabella-dasa-drndic/ …
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The titular pair are old pensioners. Their bodies are broken with age, as the story describes in grotesque loving detail. But they’re broken in other ways too, which seem to have to do with the tragic past of their families & country — two loners lost at a century’s close.pic.twitter.com/Hp9X2PXp04
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They meet on New Year’s, walking along the street. Their brief, frank affair frames the story, and will leave them both changed. We observe from a distance, aided by the reports of the police (who have them mysteriously under surveillance) and their revelations to one another.pic.twitter.com/5UdDRLspH7
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Our second story is "Safety Meeting," an excerpt from Work (
@the5accomplices) by New Jersey-based writer@Bud_Smith. It follows its narrator's stream of memories -- by turns hilarious & touching -- from a string of odd blue-collar jobs & his childhood.https://thepointmag.com/literature/safety-meeting/ …Prikaži ovu nit -
Smith’s memoir or autofiction — we’ll let you decide which — takes as its focus the industrial underbelly of capitalism that’s often left out of fiction today. His laconic, punchy paragraphs aren’t just entertaining, but come to convey the day-in day-out rhythms of working life.pic.twitter.com/AlTVk4N91T
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But make no mistake: this isn’t some dreary proletarian novel from the 30s, rigid prose stamping class consciousness into your brain. The story’s broad-humored tone allows it to explore various aspects of working-class life as it actually is: hard, funny, surreal, awe-inspiring.pic.twitter.com/XwoBgCAw4a
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In my view, the Literature section should uphold a certain tradition of art, one increasingly in danger of being lost, which sees it as a primary way human beings create and make sense of their social world -- and takes it as *seriously* as philosophy, science, or even politics.
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It's no coincidence that our first stab should appear in the same issue as
@BaskinJon's piece on the Hatred of Literature, which should be read, I think, as a protest against today's all-too-common reduction of literature to political pamphleteering.https://thepointmag.com/letter/on-the-hatred-of-literature/ …Prikaži ovu nit -
When literature is political, it’s because life is political, and it renders politics with all the ambiguity and frailty with which we have to live. But it’s also something irreducible to the political — an individual’s singular experience of the life they share with others.pic.twitter.com/jCaqLv294R
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Good stuff. Does this mean Point is accepting fiction now as a general rule?
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It won't be a section that appears every issue (we don't want to publish for publishing's sake) but it'll be a recurring one, especially in issues with no symposium. Not sure how pitching fiction will work yet, but feel free to send things along to the usual email or my DMs.
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