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Literature v. trivia.(Book Review)
From: New Criterion
Date: 20040901
Author:Lewis, Tess
Dubravka Ugresic Thank You for Not Reading: Essays on Literary Trivia, translated by Celia Hawkesworth & Damion Searles. Dalkey Archive, 225 pages, $13.95
In 1988, the Yugoslavian writer Dubravka Ugresic published her first novel, Fording the Stream of Consciousness, an amusing satire of international literary conferences. Its plot includes, besides a dead poet and a stolen manuscript, a purported descendant of Gustave Flaubert named Jean-Paul Flagus who is conspiring to found the Agency for the Totalitarian Control of Literature. By fostering "bands of third-rate speed ...
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