What Ever Happened to Modernism?

His analysis of Don Quixote does what the best criticism should: it produces an itch to read the chosen novel or poem.
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To Josipovici, novels are “machines that secrete spurious meaning into the world,” not reflective mirrors or objects designed for middlebrow comfort. To confront this idea and take it seriously is all that is needed to dramatically affect the art.

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Getting Serious: Gabriel Josipovici’s What Ever Happened to Modernism?