Av
Simen V. Gonsholt

Intervju. Publisert 21. juni 2022.

Av
Simen V. Gonsholt

Intervju. Publisert 21. juni 2022.

Simen V. Gonsholt

Født 1980. Tidligere redaktør for Vinduet. Siste bok: Kunst og gress. Artikler om fotball 2011–2022 (Tolvte Mann, 2022).

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Leo Robson går også videre i essayet, og maner frem et litteraturhistorisk multivers: 

«The belated success of Stoner, then, prompts a cultural counterfactual. What if cool analysis and formalist precision had gained greater purchase at the time? The letter-perfect novel might have become something more than an apprentice exercise, more than a rite of passage for the American novelist in search of an authentic voice, and a different postwar canon of American fiction might have taken shape, elevating such titles as James Agee’s A Death in the Family, Ann Petry’s Country Place, Thornton Wilder’s The Ides of March, Cynthia Ozick’s Trust, Richard Stern’s Other Men’s Daughters, J. F. Powers’s Morte d’Urban, Jean Stafford’s The Mountain Lion, William Maxwell’s The Château, Louis Auchincloss’s The Rector of Justin, Richard Yates’s The Easter Parade, and Evan S. Connell’s paired volumes Mrs. Bridge and Mr. Bridge. (...) By the early two-thousands, people would have been writing essays bemoaning the unjust neglect of Norman Mailer, Bellow’s misunderstood mid-period, the overlooked postmodernism of Pynchon and Barth.» Og Erik Håker ville ikke ha kjørt ut i andre omgang av storslalåmrennet i OL i Sapporo i 1972, og Jahn Teigen ville erstattet Peter Gabriel som vokalist i Genesis.