One reviewer called this a great Byzantine novel; others likened it to the fiction of Umberto Eco
.
Julia Kristeva. http://www.kristeva.fr.
Molly Hite
in the Women's Review of Books found the prose self-conscious, often pompous, the plot...
Textual Production
Christine Brooke-Rose
In 1989 she edited an issue of Review of Contemporary Fiction together with Kathy Acker
and Marguerite Young
. She collaborated on Interpretation and Overinterpretation, 1992, with Umberto Eco
, Richard Rorty
, and...
Timeline
14 February 2014: The publisher Verso brought out an English...
Writing climate item
14 February 2014
The publisher Verso
brought out an English translation of Tristano, a combinatorial novel
Jones, Thomas. “Short Cuts”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 11, 5 June 2014, p. 25.
published in Italian by Nanni Balestrini
in 1966, in which each copy is, courtesy of a computer algorithm, unique.
Davies, Lizzy. “Tristano: the love story that’s unique to each reader”. theguardian.com, 13 Feb. 2014.
Jones, Thomas. “Short Cuts”. London Review of Books, Vol.
