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...that, in a nutshell, is the exactly sort of the statement—somewhat provocative and intentionally theatrical—that has made “Reality Hunger?? into a topic of conversation since its publication. The book, a self-proclaimed “manifesto,” is as elusive of genre classification as it is resistant to a simple encapsulation. At once a meditation on the idea of truth in art, “Reality Hunger?? also comes off as rallying cry for what Shields describes as “an organic...
...course, “Reality Hunger?? itself is meant as an example of the sort of collage for which Shields so loudly clamors throughout the book: it has no narrative structure whatsoever, is told in a series of dubiously related vignettes—some like essays, others like haikus—and draws upon a wealth of examples from culture as highbrow as Proust and as lowbrow as reality television shows. “Nothing is going to happen in this book,” Shields writes...
...while Shields’s decision to construct “Reality Hunger?? in the style of the art he most values supplements the reader’s ability to grasp some of the more confusing propositions in the text, the book’s status as a “manifesto” is ultimately problematic, since it is unclear for what exactly “Reality Hunger?? can be said to be a ‘manifesto.’ The term implies the creation of an innovative world view, philosophy, or theory?...
...Shields demands in art: the replacement of traditional plot structure for the uninhibited emotional current of stream-of-consciousness narration in one and the fixation on the absurd in the other. However, Woolf, Beckett, and countless others who practiced these techniques wrote generations before “Reality Hunger?? ever hit the shelves. To that end, what good is a manifesto if it appears almost a century after the “innovations” it champions first began to appear...
...think faith is a basic, irrefutable human need,” he said, drawing from his years of working with Harvard students. “There is a hunger?? for something beyond our capacity to be manipulated...