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INVENTIONS OF A PRESENT - FREDRIC JAMESON GEBUNDEN

A novel is an act  an intervention  which  most often  the naïve reader takes as a
representation. The novel intervenes to modify or correct our conventional notions of a
situation and  in the best and most intense cases  to propose a wholly new idea of what
constitutes an event or of the very experience of living. The most interesting contemporary
novels are those which try—and sometimes manage—to awaken our sense of a collectivity behind
individual experience  revealing a relationship between the isolated subjectivity and a class
or community. But even if this happens (which is rare)  one must go on to find traces of
collective praxis hidden away within the awakened feeling of inter-connection. And since it is
in the sense of the nation and nationality that collectivity is most often expressed  there is
an urgent need to disengage the possibilities of genuine action within these areas.  This
sweeping collection of essays ranges from the elusive politics of North American literature to
the sometimes frozen narrative experiences of the eastern countries and the Soviet Union and
beyond. This is a voyage traversing the globe  discovering a common kinship between each
literary destination in late capitalism itself.

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