Wednesday, 08 July 2009
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American Pastoral
By Philip Roth
see relatedSnippet after reading Roth on the bus for an hour
It's not a question of art imitating life imitating art. The first task of art is to disguise its own constructedness, to merge so seamlessly with the world as we experience it that we mistake it for the real thing and begin to see the world itself as a human construct. Art attempts to disguise itself as what it is not--unmediated experience--while at the same time always calling attention to the disguise. It must first portray the world as it is not in order to portray it as it really is.
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Comments (8)
Hah, man. THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL WAS NOT WHAT I WAS HOPING IT WOULD BE, DAMMIT
that it is a tasty morsel. thanks for something to chew on today.
as an art student (at Madison, no less), yeah. That's good, I'll take it. Because most of the time I think this is really all very silly.
shove me in the shallow water before i get too deep
I prefer art that helps me to clarify the muddle of perception. Isolate and define.
@RizzlGrizzl - Now that song is in my head all day. Thanks a ton.
@scruffylizard - So is reality, if the existentialists are right. And I usually think they are.