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> > Umberto Eco and Roland Barthes were unavailable for comment. > It sounds as if the author means to imply that that's no excuse for them to not respond. Ba
by mistersquid 5y ago
> > Umberto Eco and Roland Barthes were unavailable for comment.
> It sounds as if the author means to imply that that's no excuse for them to not respond.
Barthes and Eco are renown for their metatextual essays and stories. They are among the pioneers who reshaped international arts and intellectual discourse through what critics and artists call poststructuralism and postmodernism.
They were and are giants in the world of belles lettres and students and scholars would receive this line and laugh. Maybe even out loud.
No shade on you (or anyone!) for being part of the unending flux that is (Literary) Eternal September.
- motohagiography 5y agoA literary eternal september is a super provocatively interesting idea, when do you think it happened, who would be pre- and post- participants, and what were its consequences? It's such an evocative metaphor for what happened online, but also for any kind of gentrification or progress.