Gosford Parkour22/06/2008
“ One of the real structural understandings of great literature, from Greek tragedy to Beckett and Faulkner, is that it’s an event. It’s not something that you can contain and narrate, but it’s like this seismic set of ripples that goes on through time, backward and forward. Contemporary novelists don’t really understand that, but contemporary artists do „
Tom McCarthy interview, Believer, June 2008 (via SurplusMatter, qui)
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