“The legacy of copia is two-fold. On the one hand it is a valuable expressive tool; on the other, its very richness leads the more thoughtful writers to question its essence: If I can say anything, then what is the status of what I say?” — Gabriel Josipovici, Writing and the Body
Reading Josipovici sent me back to Tristram Shandy. I first set it aside years ago without finishing, mistaking its strangeness for aimlessness. Flicking through the pages again, I caught the thread of something I once missed: not an argument, but a movement. A book that does not settle into form, but exists, as Josipovici writes, “only as a series of failures, of negations.”
Some books remain unread not because they resist us, but because we have not yet learned how to stay near their silence.
>tristam shandy is a book I ve yet to read ,know it is one of the must read books ,got copy not long ago ,sure I m old enough now to get it ,I think there are certain books that you need to read when a little older ,all the best stu
>Stu – Although I put it aside on my last attempt, I must have meant to read it at some point, otherwise it would not have survived my periodic library culls.