We're All Mad, Here ....
Aug. 5th, 2006 01:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
d_aulnoyAnd no, despite the tenor of the week, I don't mean "madness" as in anger.
Over the past couple of weeks, I've been reading a lot of hot new fiction that features insanity as a central conceit: The Burning Girl, Melusine, Jeff Vandermeer (yes, all of him, or at least all that I can get my greedy, grubby little paws on). I find myself wondering if it's the next brave frontier, as if, as a people, we're managed to surpass, or at least satisfactorily capture, the stream-of-consciousness, modernist desire to mimic the way people think, and decided to attempt to transcend that to find a way to get down to the bare-bones of consciousness unmediated by conscious intellect.
I'm still formulating thoughts, but in the meantime ... any happy works of craziness y'all would like to recommend to me?
Over the past couple of weeks, I've been reading a lot of hot new fiction that features insanity as a central conceit: The Burning Girl, Melusine, Jeff Vandermeer (yes, all of him, or at least all that I can get my greedy, grubby little paws on). I find myself wondering if it's the next brave frontier, as if, as a people, we're managed to surpass, or at least satisfactorily capture, the stream-of-consciousness, modernist desire to mimic the way people think, and decided to attempt to transcend that to find a way to get down to the bare-bones of consciousness unmediated by conscious intellect.
I'm still formulating thoughts, but in the meantime ... any happy works of craziness y'all would like to recommend to me?