Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things aphorisms

Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things aphorismsby Gilbert Sorrentino Publication Date: 03 01 2007 ISBN: 9781564784704 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 1950s 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..

Fearing that someone might find these confessional pages

His description of writing continually returns to a number of themes

and something like forgiveness

Edouard Levé was born on January 1

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They indulge their incestuous desires and bizarre fantasies in a room in the Plaza Santa Domingo

and offers accessible entry to the experimental writing Stein valued and promoted most—the original modernist novel by the era’s most influential author

and old imperialist dreams have revealed themselves to be a postcolonial nightmare

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