Matthew wrote:
>The books I'm most likely to fall for are those which
>Clute and Grant, following Robert Scholes's terminology, call fabulations,
>and it's a category which includes such non-cult names as Borges, Garcia
>Marquez, Grass etc. I don't like the term myself, because it implies that
>such writings are fables, ie a kind of allegory, reducible to a single
>meaning.
Yeah, I fall (or don't) along the same lines, but wonder about your
reading of "fabulation" as a category term implying "fable" and thereby
implicated in the allegorical or one-dimensional narrative. Isn't the
fabulation meant to suggest the _fabula_, in the old Russian Formalist
sense to which narratology still appeals, and closer to magical realism
than to the classic fable?
Candice
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