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Cloud Atlas by David Mtichell

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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In adopting the term “conceptual fiction” to describe a body of modern writing—which I have done in a hundred or so essays and reviews to date—I’m aiming to draw attention to an area of experimentation in contemporary storytelling that is still poorly understood.

These works of conceptual fiction cut through the great divides in criticism: divides betwee…

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