Sara Angela Rodriguez
A415-002/Chambers
Fiction Critique 4: An Author Can Dream
31 January 2013
Reading Walter Kirn’s review on Samson Graham-Muñoz’s novel’s,
Dr. Pitcher’s Experimental Mistress and
The String Theory Quartet, was very
entertaining. After reading the review I looked it up on the internet to see if
I could find this book, because it sounded very interesting, and came to the
startling realization that this book, in fact the author, were all fictitious. The
title, “An Author Can Dream” must refer to the fact that Kirn dreams of a book,
an author, a story, that is similar to the one that he has created in his short
fictional review. I think that doing this was very creative and a great way to
experiment with fictions. Not only did he create the image of a story that was
entertaining and exciting to read but he created a review about this story. This
had to be very hard because I imagine he first had to have an entire story
built up in order to break it down. I would really enjoy reading the ‘novels’
that were mentioned and I hope that one day he can actually write them, not
just a review on them. I think that the execution of this piece was perfect and
that nothing else needs to be added or changed in order to make it better. He had
us all fooled. He did his job.
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