Literature Program Presents

Literature Salon

The first Literature Salon event of the year will feature Professor David Vichnar, a Bard Literature alumnus and current senior lecturer in the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Charles University in Prague. Prof. Vichnar's presentation will offer an overview of his recently published book, The Avant-Postman: Experiments in Anglophone and Francophone Fiction in the Wake of James Joyce (Karolinum Press, 2023).

The Avant-Postman explores a broad range of innovative postwar writing from France, Britain, and the United States. Taking James Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as a joint starting point, David Vichnar draws genealogical lines from there through the work of more than fifty writers up to very recent years, including William Burroughs, B. S. Johnson, Ian Sinclair, Kathy Acker, Alan Moore, David Foster Wallace, and many others. Centering the exploration around five strategies employed by Joyce—narrative parallax, stylistic metempsychosis, concrete writing, forgery, and neologizing the logos—the book reveals the striking continuities and developments from Joyce’s day to our own.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 5:10 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Olin Humanities, Room 202

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