Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction: Prolegomena to the Narrative Sublime

These philosophical remarks, prolegomena to a theory of fiction, have been printed as originally conceived and composed, provisionally set out, in relation to the writing of a novel called ABANDONED BY THE GODS. Here, they are preserved in the material immediacy of their contingent thought-even when generative misreadings-as a critical placeholder for further investigation. They bear directly upon the formal, historical, and aesthetic aspects of narrative as an embedded practice of the body...