1. Pavel Büchler (b. 1952) Pavel Büchler’s Idle Thoughts is a collection of the artist’s diaries covering the years 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007-8, and 2010-11. Each page is the product of a month of daily entries, written in pencil or biro: rather than proceeding across the space of the diary, as we might normally write, the entries are written and overwritten on this single page, layering and layering the text. Büchler published a catalogue of these 12 overwritten months, and then set about writing on each of these pages for the appropriate month of the next year, adding diary entries on top of diary entries. These were themselves then published, and the process of layered writing continued. We say something is ‘overwritten’ when we mean it is rhetorically over-heated, but here the writing-on-top-of-writing is literal.
"‘I do not seem to be able to throw them away,’ Roth said, and in representing durational experience through discarded scraps of food and paper, rather than grand narrative events, Roth is pushing to the limit the connection between the diary and the everyday."
Yes, that's my excuse, too. Sadly, my partner isn't buying it.
"‘I do not seem to be able to throw them away,’ Roth said, and in representing durational experience through discarded scraps of food and paper, rather than grand narrative events, Roth is pushing to the limit the connection between the diary and the everyday."
Yes, that's my excuse, too. Sadly, my partner isn't buying it.
Mike
With syntax like that how can Evelyn fail to be literary? Syntax is missing from the others, of course, which is one of their deficiencies.