beautiful fiction
Yesterday I randomly found the most amazing novel: Vanishing Point, by David Markson. Absolutely gorgeous, very avant/experimental, but simultaneously completely human and touching, reaching a kind of perfect balance between the two. It's about the elderly "Author" who finds a box of random notes he's taken over many years, and attempts to create a work of fiction from them, while keeping himself out of the story. And he fails. If only I were clever enough to think of how to make a piece of music from this idea.