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FC2 proudly presents a reprint of this 1970s classic; Many of the stories in Why I Don't Write like Franz Kafka turn on physical operations in a possible future when regeneration of organs is possible. Others reflect intellectual operations as abstract as logic, with adaptations of both Kurt Goedel's Undecidability Theorem and Bertrand Russell's Paradox in set theory. The titles are set in lower case, as in a dictionary, with physical and intellectual actions defining the concept in the title. The story ""metier: why I don't write like Franz Kafka,"" implies that Kafka responded in his fiction to questions about divine laws that no longer need to be asked in fiction. The epistolary story, ""conveyance: the story I wouldn't want Bill Wilson to read,"" is an intimate letter from a woman who had wanted to write fiction. She writes to challenge Wilson's complacencies with her report of a tragedy which is beyond consolations and the coherence of art. The story, ""interim,"" chronicles the imaginary reforestation of Scotland, while ""anthropology"" turns on the actual moment in Structuralism when Claude Levi-Strauss relocates the ear to the back of the head in order to interpret a myth.
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A demanding, exhilarating work. - New York Times Book Review; ""...an ear for the frightening or ironic music in words... that should have the likes of Donald Barthelme looking to their laurels."" - Kirkus Reviews; ""Wilson's lucid and witty reverence for the fascination of the irreducible makes his 'experiments' an irresistible comprehensible whole."" - The Baltimore Sun
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- PublisherFiction Collective Two
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1573661015
- ISBN 13 9781573661010
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages133
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