Ebook {Epub PDF} Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things by Gilbert Sorrentino

*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."". 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(). Read "Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things" () to see what he does with "Nabokov" and the character of Lolita, both of whom he appropriates for use in many of his novels. The book has an unforgettable opening, many failed poets (and poems), and a picture of the New York City arts scene that is a mix of reality and unreality as filtered through the author's non-stop list-making and aestheticist .

Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things by Gilbert Sorrentino ratings, average rating, 60 reviews Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things Quotes Showing of 1 "Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. What distinguishes Sorrentino's accomplishment, above all, is his honesty. IMAGINATIVE QUALITIES OF ACTUAL THINGS portrays some eight failures in the arts (by and large the literary arts, as a title filched from William Carlos Williams would suggest) of the '60s in New York: "this," our narrator notes repeatedly, "is a book about destruction.". Gilbert Sorrentino About In addition to his books of poetry and criticism, Gilbert Sorrentino is the author of fourteen novels, including Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things, The Sky Changes, and Mulligan Stew.

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. *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. 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.