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]]> By: felix http://comments.deasil.com/2007/07/04/on-genre-vs-fiction/#comment-2499 felix Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:31:45 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/07/04/on-genre-vs-fiction/#comment-2499 LK - yes, I hate that quote. I would think the same thing about Chabon, but I think that quote reflects more of the mainstream lit world's view of genre. You know? Whether or not Chabon feels that way, I suspect it was mostly the writer's projecting his own opinions. Drives me nuts. Stefanie - I completely know what you're talking about. The literary world had to invent a whole new category that is synonymous with fantasy but you know wasn't actually called fantasy. Sigh. LK - yes, I hate that quote. I would think the same thing about Chabon, but I think that quote reflects more of the mainstream lit world’s view of genre. You know? Whether or not Chabon feels that way, I suspect it was mostly the writer’s projecting his own opinions. Drives me nuts.

Stefanie - I completely know what you’re talking about. The literary world had to invent a whole new category that is synonymous with fantasy but you know wasn’t actually called fantasy. Sigh.

]]> By: Stefanie http://comments.deasil.com/2007/07/04/on-genre-vs-fiction/#comment-2495 Stefanie Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:46:46 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/07/04/on-genre-vs-fiction/#comment-2495 The deacying corpse of genre fiction? I think it has never been more alive. Shows the ignorance and prejudices of the critic. I laugh at magical realism too. Because people like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende among many others, emply it liberally, means it is something other than fantasy? I've never quite understood that. The deacying corpse of genre fiction? I think it has never been more alive. Shows the ignorance and prejudices of the critic. I laugh at magical realism too. Because people like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende among many others, emply it liberally, means it is something other than fantasy? I’ve never quite understood that.

]]> By: LK http://comments.deasil.com/2007/07/04/on-genre-vs-fiction/#comment-2494 LK Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:22:07 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/07/04/on-genre-vs-fiction/#comment-2494 I came here via So Many Books. That is a stupid quote from Slate. Chabon (I'm talking pre-Pulitzer, too) has always been about plot -- that doesn't necessarily translate into "genre," for starters. He was trying to head a movement of "new writing" that moved away from the sort of disembodied, naval-gazing "I" that had overtaken a lot of contemporary lit. A noble effort, I might add. I don't think Chabon would look down his nose on "genre" books or writers. I came here via So Many Books.

That is a stupid quote from Slate. Chabon (I’m talking pre-Pulitzer, too) has always been about plot — that doesn’t necessarily translate into “genre,” for starters. He was trying to head a movement of “new writing” that moved away from the sort of disembodied, naval-gazing “I” that had overtaken a lot of contemporary lit. A noble effort, I might add. I don’t think Chabon would look down his nose on “genre” books or writers.

]]> By: Max Hubris http://comments.deasil.com/2007/07/04/on-genre-vs-fiction/#comment-2321 Max Hubris Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:00:12 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/07/04/on-genre-vs-fiction/#comment-2321 Damn the critics. Stupid snobs the lot of them. Damn the critics. Stupid snobs the lot of them.

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