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Text Not Textpectation - Part 2
posted Friday, 9 October 2009
Interesting thoughts by Jason Van Hollander (on authorial story-notes as printed within fiction books) from a private discussion forum, i.e. thoughts that he has agreed I can quote here:
<<The experience of reading is affected by information that exceeds the plane of story. There was a time when books and magazines excluded biographical information about an author. Publicity was crude or nonexistent. Eventually, the phenomena of publicity began to exert an infuence. The "unseemliness of publicity" became an antiquated notion; the chasm between author and reader narrowed. Eventually authors communicated to a readership how and why they write. This false intimacy is like a soup with artificial ingredients. A work of the imagination flavored with technical and personal tidbits pollutes the integrity of a reading experience.
Within the narrative boundry the author/artist directs the reader's attention, rather like a tour guide, which is the art of storytelling. Beyond the narrative boundary the author/marketer manipulates the reader's perceptions and emotions, which is the art of marketing, which is business. I regard extra-literary matter as an "infomercial." Infomercials are commercials, camouflaged as entertainment. This practice also reminds me of product-placement, where brand name products appear in movies. Extra-literary bids for attention are completely understandable, given the climate of celebrity that defines our Collective Moment.
Career highlights, personal and technical information can be revealed for interviews, biographies--at a safe distance from the zone where an author's vision floats into a reader's consciousness. Author's notes are almost like watching a busker busk while explaining what he is doing and who were the chief busker influences. >>