What Is the “Literary Strange?” Francine Prose Explores Strangeness and Sublimity for LitHub
Distinguished Writer in Residence Francine Prose.
Francine Prose, distinguished writer in residence, writes about her “encounters with the literary strange” for LitHub. Reflecting on her own experiences reading literature that defies expectations, as well as her time teaching Strange Books and the Human Condition at Bard, Prose details the feeling of encountering something truly new on the page, when “regardless of how much else we may have read, we think: This is something new. I didn’t know that a writer could do that.” Citing Bolaño, Erpenbeck, Tutuola, and more, Prose traces those qualities in writing we associate with the original and the strange.
Post Date: 11-30-2021
Post Date: 11-30-2021