Michael Martone: Fictions

Michael Martone: Fictions
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Michael Martone is its own appendix, comprising fifty contributors notes, each of which identifies in exorbitant biographical detail the author of the other forty-nine. It is full of fanciful anecdotes and preposterous reminiscences. Michael Martone's self-inventions include the multiple deaths of himself and all his family members, his Kafkaesque rebirth as a giant insect, and his stints as circus performer, assembly-line worker, photographer, and movie extra. Expect no autobiographical consistency here. A note revealing Martone's mother as the ghost-writer of all his books precedes the note beginning, Michael Martone, an orphan... We learn of Martone's university career and sketchy formal education, his misguided caretaking of his teacher John Barth's lawn, and his impersonation of a poor African republic in political science class, where Martone's population is allowed to starve as his more fortunate fellow republics fight over development and natural resource trading-cards. Peanut, Bug, Gigi-tone, Tony's boy, Patty's boy, Junior's, Mickey, Monk, Mr Martone, and the contributor named in this note, proves as Protean as fiction itself, continuously transforming the past with every new attribution but never identifying himself by name. It is this missing personage who, from first note to last, constitutes the unformed subject of Michael Martone.

Country	USA
Author	Professor Michael Martone
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: Fiction Collective 2
EAN	9781573661263
Edition	1St Edition
ISBN	1573661260
Label	Fiction Collective 2
Manufacturer	Fiction Collective 2
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	186
PublicationDate	2005-10-01
Publisher	Fiction Collective 2
Studio	Fiction Collective 2
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Michael Martone: Fictions

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