William Gass – författare

A wide-ranging anthology of experimental writing—prose, poetry, and hybrid—from its most significant practitioners and innovators  A variety of names have been used to describe fiction, poetry, and hybrid writing that explore new forms and challenges mainstream traditions. Those phrases include experimental, conceptual, avant-garde, hybrid, surfiction, fusion, radical, slip-stream, avant-pop, postmodern, self-conscious, innovative, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writing, alternative, and anti- or new literature. Conceptualisms: The Anthology of Prose, Poetry, Visual, Found, E- & Hybrid Writing as Contemporary Art is the first major anthology of writing that offers readers an overview of this other tradition as it lives in the early decades of the 21st century.Featuring over 100 pieces from more than 90 authors, this anthology offers a plethora of aesthetics and approaches to a wide variety subjects. Editor Steve Tomasula has gathered poems, prose, and hybrid pieces that all challenge our understanding of what literature means. Intended as a collection of the most exciting and bold literary work being made today, Tomasula has put a spotlight on the many possibilities available to writers and readers wishing for a glimpse of literature’s future.Readers will recognize authors who have shaped contemporary writing, as among them Lydia Davis, Charles Bernstein, Jonathan Safran Foer, Shelley Jackson, Nathaniel Mackey, David Foster Wallace, and Claudia Rankine. Even seasoned readers will find authors, and responses to the canon, not yet encountered. Conceptualisms is a book of ideas for writers, teachers and scholars, as well as readers who wonder how many ways literature can live.The text features headnotes to chapters on themes such as sound writing, electronic literature, found text, and other forms, offering accessible introductions for readers new to this work. An online companion presents statements about the work and biographies of the authors in addition to audio, video, and electronic writing that can’t be presented in print. Visit www.conceptualisms.info to read more.

A finales del siglo XIX, el pueblo de Gilean, en el estado de Ohio, recibe a una familia de forasteros, los Omensetter. Desde el primer momento, sus habitantes admiran la magnética personalidad del cabeza de familia, Brackett, y la suerte que siempre parece acompanarlo. Sin embargo, su llegada no es bien acogida por todos. El reverendo Jethro Furber, en pleno proceso de degradación mental y espiritual, centra su odio en Brackett Omensetter. Una muerte acelera el enfrentamiento entre los dos hombres, narrado por medio de distintas voces que son testigos fieles de una brillante disquisición sobre la muerte y el sentido de la vida, sobre el bien y el mal.La suerte de Omensetter fue catalogada desde su publicación en 1966 como una novela cumbre de la narrativa estadounidense. David Foster Wallace la consideraba una de sus obras favoritas de todos los tiempos, y Susan Sontag siempre recordaba su admiración por William Gass y por este libro, que describía como perfecto y extraordinario.