“The Delivery” is a Meta-Fictional Puppet Show with Little to Say – Chicago Review of Books

“The Delivery” is a Meta-Fictional Puppet Show with Little to Say – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In an interview for The Believer, graphic artist turned novelist Peter Mendelsund elaborated his own approach to literature by using a surprising comparison to another art: puppetry. The audience of a puppet show is observing two stories simultaneously, “the diegetic material that the puppets are performing, and the actions the puppeteer is performing.” In … Read more