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2000 |
The Big Lie (Pivotal Prose Series)
A boy finds an artist's manifesto on the floor, a gay man reflects on his regrets, a woman suddenly sees a man's face through her car window. Don't be fooled if it sounds familiar or credible; in the world of The Big Lie such simply-told and apparently "sincere" moments are only the iceberg's tip. Subtly referencing some of the great iconoclasts of literature and philosophy (Kafka, Wilde, Nietzsche), these vignettes unveil a defiant sense of contemporary artistic possibility, rising at times into a full-scale attack on American style consumerism, unmediated authorship, and the bloated privileges of literary "genius. Quick shifts between styles, personas and subject matter keep the reader critical and wary. Even when The Big Lie demands an art of open questions, the writing remains its own example, always better-than-advertised. |
