"I started to break language down, to let it dissolve. And then to see what stories I could find in the debris..."Things do not only change, they mutate; become other. Falling Out of Cars is part of Noon's continuing revolt out of genre and into creative resistance against all traditional forms of fiction, as if he believes that the ultimate incomprehensibility of life must be matched by an equal incomprehensibility of narrative. This is a road novel, stripped of plot and meaning. What you get is what you read. Anything else might risk making life comprehensible; and one gets the feeling that, for Noon, this would be to collude with his readers.
We need to get used to this sort of thing. We're not going to be able to manage information in the way that we hope we can--putting it into neat boxes, adding tags for semantic encoding, or getting smart software to deliver us just the pieces we need. We need to learn how to deal with overload and breakdown.
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Posted by johndan at December 30, 2003 11:03 PM
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