History of the imagination
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Norman Lock
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Fiction Collective Two
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Tallahassee, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Safaris -- Fiction; Africa -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: "A History of the Imagination is a postmodern tale of adventure that reshapes the parameters of time and space, thought and action. In a metaphorical Africa, replete with nostalgia (but no dimensions), anything can happen and usually does, from raising the dead to wrestling with God. The narrator defends his magical departures, saying his is a history of possibilities, where fiction is "no less real for [its] being so."" "Norman Lock juxtaposes remote times and places, historical facts and literary fictions, to create an absurdist collage reminiscent of Guy Davenport and Donald Barthelme."--BOOK JACKET.