Gilbert Sorrentino. Dalkey Archive Press, - Fiction - pages. 6 Reviews. Wildly comic and bitterly satiric, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things is Gilbert Sorrentino's ruthless, and 4/5(6). Imaginative Qualities Of Actual Things|Gilbert Sorrentino, Lessons in Gnani Yoga: The Yoga of Wisdom|YOGI RAMACHARAKA, Rochester Haunts: A Ghost Hunter's Guide|Dwayne Claud, B Flying Fortress: A Bombing Legend (Osprey Colour Series)|Michael O'Leary/10(). *The actual qualities of imaginative things like the antinovel are are are oh well type something fictive. Or ""oneiric.""** But actually pretty actual — playful, immodestly sexy***, full of lists (these are tremendous) and author interpolations and footnotes and words — ""The reader will see that what I am driving at is that the words he is reading #; are words."".
rev. of Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things by Gilbert Sorrentino by. Sorrentino's virtuosity as a prose stylist invites this sort of arrogant, frivolous treatment. I've read' the book three times and I cannot remember the characters or who they are in what your grandmother called real life. Gilbert Sorrentino's Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things () is, first and foremost, an excoriating satire of New York's Greenwich Village art scene in the s. Sorrentino was a New York writer, poet and editor, who died in Although he published more than 30 books, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things (which is named after a line in William Carlos Williams's Kora in Hell. Gilbert Sorrentino earned critical praise for his highly innovative poetry and fiction. The structures of his novels are of particular importance because Sorrentino felt that form is more important than content. "Form not only determines content," he told Charles Trueheart of Publishers Weekly, "but form invents content." Accordingly, all of Sorrentino's novels are structured in.
Sorrentino plays with conventions nicely but with an unfortunate edge of contempt (unlike Ronald Sukenick, who plays with them lovingly or John Barth who plays with them in his crisp, prissy brain-surgeon manner). To the extent that it is an actual roman-a-clef I should say that like most sentimental people Sorrentino is cruel. Wildly comic and bitterly satiric, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things is Gilbert Sorrentino's ruthless, and timeless, attack on the New York art world of the s and '60s. Among the best of Sorrentino's novels, Imaginative Qualities is also, quite simply, the best American novel ever written about writers and artists. Edition Details. Wildly comic and bitterly satiric, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things is Gilbert Sorrentino's ruthless, and timeless, attack on the New York art world of the s and '60s. Among the best of Sorrentino's novels, Imaginative Qualities is also, quite simply, the best American novel ever written about writers and artists.
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