A Theory-Fiction Reading List 2.0: Now with more titles, attempts at sub-divisions, and fewer misspellings.pic.twitter.com/HThnNKmKz4
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Thinking it over, I have a real soft spot for the (more classically fiction, hence probably not list-apt) philosophical novels : Glass Bead Game, Magic Mountain, Bouvard et Pécuchet.
All great suggestions. The philosophical novel is itself such a massive category that it deserves its own list. Speaking of Mann, the prelude to Joseph and His Brothers is an excellent example of fiction and nonfiction overlapping.
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I'm perhaps less enamoured of theory-fiction as a contemporary genre form than some are (mostly just a taste thing), but I would love to compile a list of attempts to render more or less coherent accounts of fictional /theoreticians/, which seems like quite a specific gesture.
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Oh that’d be an interesting project. Eliot’s Casaubon and Pynchon’s Cherrycoke come to mind.
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Yeah, I also thought of Pynchon here. This one reason I raised O'Brien: 'de Selby' is a prime example of this technique.
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