A circus is, in one sense, a place of entertainment; in another, it is an open space where a number of streets converge. Both senses might be thought relevant to this story as a space in which various lines of narrative meet. But as a space it is circular and self-contained: it leads nowhere but back to its beginning. However, I resist the notion of art as self-contained.And of course he's right to resist. Even the best work of literature is not independent. It's just very, very lonely.
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Cirque line
Ellis Sharp discusses Bernhard's page-long story Piccadilly Circus:
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Uncharacteristically, you fill in a space - that which yawns between the last word of my penultimate paragraph ('beginning') and the first word of the final paragraph ('However'). A void, which is not necessarily a bridge.
ReplyDeleteIs it not possible that the grain of the voice in my final paragraph (formal, perhaps even faintly deranged) is a little different to what precedes it - almost, one might hesitantly suggest, a voice imitation?