{"id":399,"date":"2008-09-24T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogit.image.fi\/antiaikalainen\/torju-ironia-torju-kyynisyys\/"},"modified":"2018-02-28T09:32:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T07:32:39","slug":"torju-ironia-torju-kyynisyys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/torju-ironia-torju-kyynisyys\/","title":{"rendered":"Torju ironia, torju kyynisyys"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Slate haastatteli David Foster Wallacea Infinite Jestin<\/em> ilmestymisen j\u00e4lkeen runsaat kymmenen vuotta sitten. Tuossa haastattelussa DFW vet\u00e4\u00e4 hienosti yhteen asioita, joihin kulminoituu olennainen kirjallisuuden roolista, teht\u00e4v\u00e4st\u00e4, mahdollisuuksista ja merkityksest\u00e4 my\u00f6s nykyp\u00e4iv\u00e4n\u00e4:<\/div>\n
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“If you, the writer, succumb to the idea that the audience is too stupid, then there are two pitfalls. Number one is the avant-garde pitfall, where you have the idea that you’re writing for other writers, so you don’t worry about making yourself accessible or relevant. You worry about making it structurally and technically cutting edge: involuted in the right ways, making the appropriate intertextual references, making it look smart. Not really caring about whether you’re communicating with a reader who cares something about that feeling in the stomach which is why we read. Then, the other end of it is very crass, cynical, commercial pieces of fiction that are done in a formulaic way — essentially television on the page — that manipulate the reader, that set out grotesquely simplified stuff in a childishly riveting way.
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What’s weird is that I see these two sides fight with each other and really they both come out of the same thing, which is a contempt for the reader, an idea that literature’s current marginalization is the reader’s fault. The project that’s worth trying is to do stuff that has some of the richness and challenge and emotional and intellectual difficulty of avant-garde literary stuff, stuff that makes the reader confront things rather than ignore them, but to do that in such a way that it’s also pleasurable to read. The reader feels like someone is talking to him rather than striking a number of poses.” <\/p>\n
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Edellisen lainauksen viimeiset virkkeet liittyv\u00e4t k\u00e4sitt\u00e4\u00e4kseni my\u00f6s niihin juttuihin, joista DFW tunsi etenkin el\u00e4m\u00e4ns\u00e4 viimeisin\u00e4 vuosina syvenev\u00e4\u00e4 ahdistusta niin ammattillisesti kuin henkil\u00f6kohtaisesti. H\u00e4n pyrki vapautumaan postmodernia kirjallisuutta luonnehtivasta ironiasta, olemaan vilpit\u00f6n ja v\u00e4lit\u00f6n, ottamaan emotionaalista riski\u00e4 – rather than striking a number of poses.<\/div>\n
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DFW:n viimeiseksi j\u00e4\u00e4neess\u00e4 fiktiivisess\u00e4 teoksessa, novellikokoelmassa Oblivion <\/em>on teksti nimelt\u00e4 Good Old Neon<\/em>, jonka viilt\u00e4v\u00e4 aloitus kuvastanee kirjailijan henkil\u00f6kohtaisia tuntoja, pelkoja tai ep\u00e4varmuutta, etenkin kun tarina kiertyy lopulta omael\u00e4m\u00e4kerrallisiin yhteyksiin: <\/p>\n
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“My whole life I\u00b4ve been a fraud. I\u00b4m not exaggerating. Pretty much all I\u00b4ve ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people.”<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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