Momus (musician)
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+ | :As a student of literature, something you find yourself doing a lot is reading books about books -- narratives which tear through the plot outlines, critical receptions and choicest quotes of other books, giving you some kind of rapid gist or taste of hundreds of titles you'll probably never read. What I've always liked about these books-about-books | ||
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+ | *Modernism by Malcolm Bradbury and | ||
+ | *Surrealisme et Sexualité by Xaviere Gauthier | ||
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+ | In a weird, inverted way, some of the books which must be most hellish to read in real life, in real time, turn out, in these metabook accounts, to be the most entertaining to read '''about''' (see [[paratext]]). | ||
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+ | *[[Nathanael West]] "anti-kunstleroman" | ||
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*[http://imomus.livejournal.com/301726.html On meta-reading] | *[http://imomus.livejournal.com/301726.html On meta-reading] | ||
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For more than twenty years he has been releasing, to only marginal commercial and critical success, playful and transgressive albums on labels in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan. In his lyrics and his other writing he makes seemingly random use of decontextualized pieces of continental (mostly French) philosophy, and has built up a personal world he says is "dominated by values like diversity, orientalism, and a respect for otherness." He is also known in certain circles outside the U.S. as a producer. He is fascinated by identity, Japan, the avant-garde, time travel and sex.
He wears a patch over his right eye because he lost use of it from contracting acanthamoeba keratitis from a contact lens case washed with Greek tap water.
Current subjects
- As a student of literature, something you find yourself doing a lot is reading books about books -- narratives which tear through the plot outlines, critical receptions and choicest quotes of other books, giving you some kind of rapid gist or taste of hundreds of titles you'll probably never read. What I've always liked about these books-about-books
- Modernism by Malcolm Bradbury and
- Surrealisme et Sexualité by Xaviere Gauthier
In a weird, inverted way, some of the books which must be most hellish to read in real life, in real time, turn out, in these metabook accounts, to be the most entertaining to read about (see paratext).
- Nathanael West "anti-kunstleroman"