Julio Cortázar rejected the idea of linear narratives in the fragmented Hopscotch. Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler was a novel made out of fragments of imaginary novels that you will never be able to read. “Fragments are the only forms I trust,” says the narrator of Donald Barthelme’s short story “See the Moon?” At one point in time, fragments were radical. So why doesn't the cat-lying on her side there with her eyes squeezed shut-show any appreciation?
These cost me hundreds of dollars over the years and have a street value of many hundreds of dollars. 8 Here I have retrieved from beneath the refrigerator these thirty or forty fur-covered toy mice.
Why should you get to know where I’m going, I don’t. 143 I just regret everything and using my turn signal is too much trouble. She spends most of her time driving and taking ADD medication.Ģ31 One thing to do in this grotesque hotel room is prop up on the bed pillows in the middle of the night and yam down a hundred stick doughnuts. Her daughter is hard to manage, her boyfriend has some issues, and her son is in the hospital after a violent assault. She’s struggling as a Hollywood script doctor (she’s working on a movie about Bigfoot).
These fragments depict moments from the life of Money Breton. The novel is composed of 536 numbered sections, most of which could fit into a 280 character Tweet. Mary Robison’s 2001 novel, Why Did I Ever, is the great lost American fragment novel. A snippet of a novel read between subway stops. Our text diet is composed of tossed-off tweets, Instagram updates, and the two sentences of articles that autofill a Facebook post. Fragments are the dominant literature of today.
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