![]() ![]() These are intimate, hermetic, voice-driven portraits-their allegorical slant bringing the reader on intensive forays into the personal rather than the ever-expanding universal the complexity portrayed is one of individual experience rather than one of the World. Their work showcases an aesthetic of humility and individual struggle. ![]() Debut novels from Europe’s Generation X give us a sampling of distinctly un-encyclopedic tendencies. From the books gathered here, one might conclude that young Europeans, not unlike many of their American counterparts, have moved a considerable distance from the encyclopedic novel. Now, at the end of the millennium, it is interesting to reconsider Calvino’s vision of the novel in terms of those writers working into the next. In “Multiplicity,” his last memo for the next millennium, Italo Calvino gives us a template for the encyclopedic novel: expansive, playful, difficult-successful metafiction. Voices from Abroad: Baricco, Brizzi, Brussig, Darrieussecq, Nothambby Minna Proctorįinn Taylor's Dream With the Fishes & Matthew Bright's Freewayby Lynn Gellerīob Dylan & Radiohead: Subterranean Homesicknessby Vernon Reid Luc Sante's The Factory of Factsby Robert Polito The Voice of the Turtle: An Anthology of Cuban Storiesby Caryl Phillips Pamela Sneed's Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slaveryby Coco Fuscoĭavid Gates's Preston Fallsby Jenifer Berman ![]() Rosa: an excerpt from Slaughtermaticby Steve Aylett ![]() Victor Garber and Alfred Molinaby Mark Magillĭavid Clarkson: Altering Statesby Saul Ostrow ![]()
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