MadInkBeard | Derik A Badman

According to Crisp, the loss of the retrospective narration, and therefore the loss of identification with the first person, is unfortunate. He contends that in the Moral Tales the retrospective narration gave the audience the pleasures of searching for ambiguity and contradiction in the ‘uneasy coexistence of these subjective reflections and of the “objective” image [...]

An interview with Harry Mathews in the Brooklyn Rail. He discusses the new book, a little of his past, his impressions of Queneau (“I think he had very catholic tastes in literature, but he was strict in deciding whether a method of writing was Oulipian or not.”) and Perec, and writing in general (he’s moving [...]