Word: nakedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walser's apocalyptic vision stole a march on the many literary ones that were to follow in this century. So did he also help invent what later became a modernist stereotype: the passive, clerkly man who must find ways of passing time while waiting for the end. In The...
A man awakens in a padded room. He cannot remember how he got there or much of anything else. Two women are watching him, and from them he learns his name: Miles Green. He begins to dislike the observer who calls herself his wife and feels relieved when she goes...
There are the expected encounters: a woman who finds the youth's awkward innocence sexually and emotionally attractive; the summer job that does not work out. For a few bewildering hours Daniel parades up and down a street dressed as a giant peanut, his view limited by a slit...
Neither did the children. They have been relocated near the women. Heads shaved, they seem of one sex or of none. Some are naked. They are penned in a small dark space; they smell of urine; their thighs are stained with excrement. They seem to moan continually. One boy shivers...
Pieces gathers fugitive articles written over the course of some ten years: fragments on subjects as diverse as Viet Nam, sex, television, Henry Miller and subway graffiti. Occasionally the old pro jabs with acute social observations and feints with malicious wit. He divides his examination of television into channels instead...