Gabriel Josipovici is a major contemporary British author. If this fact has so far escaped the notice of British literary critics and much of the British public, this is no doubt due to Josipovici’s denigration as “merely” an “experimentalist” (Jarfe 2006: 123; Pernot 2014: 2/11; Wolf 2014: 2/25; Jarfe also calls his writing “innovative, but also rather idiosyncratic” – 2006: 122). Although Josipovici’s early short fiction, which afforded him first place in the Somerset Maugham Awards in 1975, is technically extremely versatile and formally striking and therefore answers to the label from a narratological perspective, the author’s later fiction no longer obtrudes formal solecisms on the reader in a manner reminiscent of postmodernist experimentation. (Wolf 2014…
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Citation: Fludernik, Monika. "Gabriel Josipovici". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 October 2001; last revised 29 September 2023. [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2415, accessed 24 November 2024.]
