The invented part
(Book)
""A kaleidoscopic, open-hearted, shamelessly polymathic storyteller, the kind who brings a blast of oxygen into the room."--Jonathan Lethem. An aging writer, disillusioned with the state of literary culture, attempts to disappear in the most cosmically dramatic manner: traveling to the Hadron Collider, merging with the God particle, and transforming into an omnipresent deity -- a meta-writer -- capable of rewriting reality. With biting humor and a propulsive, contagious style, amid the accelerated particles of his characteristic obsessions -- the writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the music of Pink Floyd and The Kinks, 2001: A Space Odyssey, the links between great art and the lives of the artists who create it -- Fresan takes us on a whirlwind tour of writers and muses, madness and genius, friendships, broken families, and alternate realities, exploring themes of childhood, loss, memory, aging, and death. Drawing inspiration from the scope of modern classics and the structural pyrotechnics of the postmodern masters, the Argentine once referred to as "a pop Borges" delivers a powerful defense of great literature, a celebration of reading and writing, of the invented parts -- the stories we tell ourselves to give shape to our world. Rodrigo Fresan is the author of nine books of fiction that together compose an expansive, interconnected fictional universe -- a complex system of storylines, resonances, and self-reference that call to mind the works of David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, and Roberto Bolano. Will Vanderhyden received fellowships from the NEA and Lannan Foundation to work on The Invented Part"--
Notes
Fresán, R., & Vanderhyden, W. (2017). The invented part. Rochester, NY, Open Letter.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Fresán, Rodrigo, 1963- and Will, Vanderhyden. 2017. The Invented Part. Rochester, NY, Open Letter.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Fresán, Rodrigo, 1963- and Will, Vanderhyden, The Invented Part. Rochester, NY, Open Letter, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Fresán, Rodrigo and Will Vanderhyden. The Invented Part. Rochester, NY, Open Letter, 2017.
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