Wednesday, August 18, 2010
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NY Observer Writes Profile of Tao Lin in Tao Lin's Style, is as Unpleasant as That Sounds
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by Jonny Diamond on
Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 2:33 PM
Oh dear. Christian Lorentzen, who is funny and smart, has written a New York
Observer profile of
writer performance artist Tao Lin, in the author's flat, intentionally irritating style (think third-tier Nouveau Roman reject, some sexless Claude Simon groupie). It's painful. They go to Five Leaves. Lorentzen says this:
Your Concrete/Literal Style rolls back all the advances Flaubert made in the representation of consciousness. But by rolling back modernity, you've also advanced the novel by exposing its distortions.
I weep for us all.
Tags: Tao Lin, Christian Lorentzen, New York Observer, frauds, irritating frauds, boring frauds, there's no there there, paging James Wood
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