| Surreal South '09 Contributor(s): Benedict, Laura (Editor), Benedict, Pinckney (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0982576013 ISBN-13: 9780982576014 Publisher: Press 53 OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fantasy - Collections & Anthologies |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6" W x 9" (1.20 lbs) 372 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Sublimity, as we choose to define it, is that quality a story possesses when it is, in its entirety, completely unpredictable as well as completely inevitable and authentic.... A story-a real story, of the type that we've gathered here; not the mock-stories, the painless, bloodless vignettes that make up so much of today's "literary" fiction-involves apocalypse. Apocalypse means a revelation (the literal meaning of the word apocalypse is a "lifting of the veil"), and a very specific type of revelation: the destruction of an old order, followed by a time of disorder and chaos, and the replacement of the old order by a new and entirely different order.... Sublimity and apocalypse. Anti-rationality and surreality. The call for the literary artist is nothing less than to reveal and remake everything; and the writers whose work you are about to experience have boldly answered that call. We invite you to abandon to its well-deserved fate the wreckage of the rational, and to enjoy." - from the Introduction, by Laura & Pinckney Benedict |