Before revision: Reception Review of Contemporary Fiction wrote " these stories explore the perplexity about ways of knowing and how knowledge is made manifest through storytelling, Olsen delivers what could be called a 'destructuralized' novel that successfully resists the temptation of a conventional narrative strategy, yet for a novel that so self-consciously flashes its experimental bona fides, Theories remains eminently readable.
After revision: Reception The Collagist commented that with Theories of Forgetting " Olsen delivers what could be called a 'destructuralized' novel that successfully resists the temptation of a conventional narrative strategy, yet for a novel that so self-consciously flashes its experimental bona fides, Theories remains eminently readable.