Infinite Fictions: Essays on Literature and Theory

Introduction: Infinite Fictions

On literature

Language as Astonishment: Micheline Aharonian Marcom, A Brief History of Yes
Work the Hurt: Sam Lipsyte, The Fan Parts
Like Sugar Dissolving: Lydia Davis, The End of the Story
The Other Life That Is Ours: Dawn Raffel, In the Year of Long Division
Pratfall into the Infinite: Lars Iyer, Dogma
The Background Noise of the Universe: Tor Ulven, Replacement
Difficult Intimacies: Christine Schutt, Prosperous Friends
The Impenetrable Everyday: Enrique Vila-Matas, Dublinesque
Fractal Baroque: Jason Schwartz, John the Posthumous
Stars and Despair: Gabriel Josipovici, Hotel Andromeda
Not to Fall Silent: Gabriel Josipovici, Infinity
Between Positivism and Magic: Marek Bieiiczyk, Transparency
Truth, Force, Composition: Gordon Lish, Peru
Literature is What We Are Lost In: Ivan Vladislavic, The Loss Library
No States, Only the Sky: Dylan Nice, Other Kinds
Wide Skies and Wildflowers: Sam Michel, Strange Cowboy
Reservoirs of Silence: Miranda Mellis, The Spokes
Fiction's Reach for Freedom: The Life and Work of Hob Broun
Start from Zero and Count Backwards: Kjersti Skomsvold, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am
The Far Side of Fiction: Gerald Murnane, Barley Patch
No Rings, No Bouquets: Gary Lutz, Divorcer
Sweet Emptiness: Andrzej Stasink, Dukla

On theory

Theory's Renewal: Тепу Eagleton, The Event of Literature
The Prism of Literature: Franco Moretti, Distant Reading and The Bourgeois
Outside the Onlipo: Daniel Levin Becker, Many Subtle Channels
Utopic Impurity: Tom Eyers, Post-Rationalism
Significant Insignificance: Ben Kafka, The Demon of Writing
Terror and Beauty: Martin Hagglund, Dying for Time
A Way of Life that Withdraws from Life: Peter Sloterdijk, The Art of Philosophy
Voices for the Voiceless: Jacques Ranciere, Mute Speech and Staging the People
Philosophical Myths and Memories: Peter E. Gordon, Continental Divide
Strategies of Sense-Making: Martin Woessner, Heidegger in America
Belief from Non-Belief: Simon Critchley, The Faith of the Faithless
No More Great Ideas: Mark M. Freed, Robert Musil and the NonModern
Reading Like a Loser: Malcolm Bull, Anti-Nietzsche
The World's Disappearance: Cathy Carnth, Literature in tlie Ashes of History
Steep Turns, Surprising Vistas: D.N. Rodowick, Elegy for Theory