Accessions 23aug24

I found a sample of this laying deep in my Kindle and opened it. Ten minutes reading and I pressed the button to buy it. Kornbluh is a fun and fierce writer.

…contemporary literature repudiates representation itself, dismantling narration, character, plot, and the smoke of myth in favor of simply manifesting viscerally affecting stuff. Fiction makes me nauseous, the writer Karl Ove Knausgaard avers on the page, and reams of twenty-first-century writers incubate this malaise, in unalloyed unbosoming via radiant voice.

IMMEDIACY, OR, THE STYLE OF TOO LATE CAPITALISM (UK) (US+)