Theme
While nurtured by the
widespread disorders of the world, literature and art can also serve to codify
the world into aesthetic forms. Piero della Francesca's geometric palaces or
Jerome Bosch's apocalyptic scenes were but the reflection of
ideal and edifying visions. However, it seems that postmodernity represents a
shift from this ancestral mission of art to organize a fragmented reality. The complexity of the current world generates
works
that endeavor to embrace rather than assimilate the
totality of culture, myths, scientific knowledge and technologies (William
Gaddis, Thomas Pynchon, Jon Barth, Pierre Alféri, Olivier Cadiot), and at the
same time, it leads writers, such as Donald Bartheme, Bejamin DeMott, Hélène
Cixous, Valère Novarina, Frédéric-Yves Jeannet to more intimate works, in which
the self or the process of creation itself are the essential protagonists of the
writing.
Theme of the next issue : "The
Secret" -- See Submissions
