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How to Write (Paperback): derek beaulieu beaulieu How to Write (Paperback)
derek beaulieu beaulieu
R385 R314 Discovery Miles 3 140 Save R71 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"How to Write" is a perverse Coles Notes: a paradigm of prosody where writing as sampling, borrowing, cutting-and-pasting and mash-up meets literature. This collection of conceptual short ?ction takes inspiration from Lautreamont's decree that "plagiarism is necessary. It is implied in the idea of progress. It clasps the author's sentence tight, uses his expressions, eliminates a false idea, replaces it with the right idea."
Already early in the twentieth century, the modernist Ezra Pound asserted that poets should "make it new," and of course by "it" he meant "the tradition" the materiality of pre-existent writing. The assertion is by no means original, much less post-modern: John Donne, for example, argued centuries ago that "all mankind is of one author, and is one volume."
"How to Write" is an instruction manual for the demise of ownership. A multitudinous dialogue of writers and subjects, words and contexts, it unleashes a cacophony of voices where authors don't own their words, they merely rent them from other authors. Containing ten pieces of conceptual prose ranging from the purely appropriated through the entirely recomposed, and covering a range of texts from the anonymous to the famous, it includes samplings from, among many others: Lawrence Sterne; Agatha Christie; Bob Kane; Roy Lichtenstein; and every piece of text within one block of the author's home. Its title story is an exhaustive record of every incidence of the words "write" or "writes" in forty different English-language texts picked aesthetically to represent a disparate number of genres.
With "How to Write," beaulieu suggests writers and artists would be better served to "make it reframed, make it borrowed, make it re-contextualized." By recasting the canon with cut-up directions for successful writing, catalogues of events, and lists of vocabulary, he gleefully illustrates Picasso's dictum that "Good artists copy. Great artists steal."

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