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07:01 /
02.10.2007
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As a child, I used to get stuck in feedback loops thinking about what i was thinking about, setting up my pechant for introspective books about acts of seeing and reading. James Elkins How To Use Your Eyes exposes the processes and psychology behind seeing. Once read its hard to look around without acknowledging what is happening behind the scenes. As for The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker, the incredible micro-detail of an arbitary 5 minute period of office life expanded into neverending digressive footnotes. |
Italo Calvino's classic If On A Winters Night, A Traveller breaks the comforting notion of being buried in a novel, constantly reminding you of what you are holding. |
Funny to come across this post as I am in the middle of reading Life, A User Manual that is dragging my brain into the self reflective epistemological loop you talk about. Loving it though.
If I had to make my own list of "too much detail" literature that would be:
(the one I'm reading)
Hortense Trilogy by Jacques Roubaud.
Not completely in the category but worth mentioning for its reality perception changing power:
Einstein Dreams by Alan Ligthman.
And probably Umberto's Eco Foucault's Pendulum where one of the characters believes he's slowly dying because of his obsessive intellectual activity.
If I had to make my own list of "too much detail" literature that would be:
(the one I'm reading)
Hortense Trilogy by Jacques Roubaud.
Not completely in the category but worth mentioning for its reality perception changing power:
Einstein Dreams by Alan Ligthman.
And probably Umberto's Eco Foucault's Pendulum where one of the characters believes he's slowly dying because of his obsessive intellectual activity.
Posted by Eduardo Barbosa
15:56 / 02/10/2007
15:56 / 02/10/2007
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