Ben Marcus's books The Age of Wire and String and Notable American Women were considered "experimental" fiction because of his unconventional use of...
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bruce erickson, December 8, 2007 (view all comments by bruce erickson)
A classic, of course, but still a contemporary model of eloquence and imagination, and flowing out of Monsieur Swann's eating a small sugar cookie whose flavor he recalls as previous experience and he begins to "summon up the remembrance of things past." Well worth a long, contemplative reading experience.
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