Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I think Faulkner is a marvelous example and an another one would be James >Joyce. If you compare his two great books: Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake... > >John Collier john, for an interesting take on the 'wake' and similar works, read eco's 'the open work.' for those who are willing to entertain the idea, it is a study of works - literary, musical, paintery - that do not seek to communicate a specific message, that refute the possibility of closure, that remain - like most good art - open to discussion and interpretation, and are to a certain extent dependant on the reader's/auditor's/viewers interaction. such work does not seek to tell a story, divulge a message, communicate a specific intent, nor does it deny that more discursive type of work. it is simply another mode of artistic expression that, like it or not, exists and is perhaps more than any other the hallmark of our time. yo! guy