Novels, blogs, democracy

Eulàlia Petit@Barcelonetes is right about exhibitions at Barcelona’s CCCB–too much curation, not enough content. She says a variety of interesting things about the current one, West by East (which actually deals with “Muslim” representations of “the West”), and quotes the Iranian writer, Sorour Kasmaï. Kasmaï says that for her the novel is what defines the West, displaying a variety of paths, a genre that underpins democracy. Poetry, on the other hand, is subjective, potentially a despotic genre. That’s what Bill Gray was saying way back in Don DeLillo’s Mao II (interesting piece):

It’s also why the Chinese government get more worked up about the chit-chit-chatter of blogs and search engines than about newspapers, and why writers get belatedly nervous about wonderful things like Wikis.

(For Manolo, press sales manager in Blasco Ibáñez’s La horda (previous post),

Manolo is, however, more wild-eyed than visionary.)

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