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Carlos Cunha in The Modern Chronicle

Oct 29, 2018

The Essay vs. the Chronicle

A few years ago, Harry Mount, the editor of Notting Hill Editions Journal in England, tried to define what an essay is: “Any shortish passage of non-fiction which makes a general argument.”

James Agee and the Modern Chronicle

James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is to the modern chronicle what James Joyce’s Ulysses is to the modern novel. Few critics have noted how influential Agee was as a stylist. How clearly and completely many passages in the Agee book anticipated by about 20…

Ernaux: It’s Not Fiction

Annie Ernaux, best known among English-speakers for her book “A Simple Passion,” is one of the very best chroniclers out there, taking for her sole subject a sort of unembarrassed anthropology of the self. She has often pointed out that what she writes should not be misconstrued as…

What Is a Chronicle?

I t is probably the world’s oldest literary genre, but for too long now it has been sailing under foreign banners. The Modern Chronicle seeks to identify and promote contemporary and past examples of the art of the chronicle.

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It’s not an essay. It’s not a novel. It’s not an article … It’s a CHRONICLE!

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