Dictionary of modern anguish
Subtitle: fictions
By: by R.M. Berry.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: FC2
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Normal, [Ill.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Experimental fiction, American.
Description: "Reviews of unwritten novels, prefaces to fraudulent books, narratives of dictionary entries, and one interminable sentence, all written in a style as strewn with landmines as everyday speech. In "Mimesis" a semi-literate surveyor struggles against metaphysical abandonment in a Florida swamp; in "Torture!" an anthropologist leaves his lifelong study of cruelty mysteriously unwritten; and in "A Theory of Fiction" a ruined man finds revenge in misrepresenting every injustice he's ever suffered.

Nothing seems the matter. Everything appears to be wrong. From first word to last, these are fictions of impossible everydayness, where the telling of what's happening proves the unlikeliest feat of all."--BOOK JACKET.