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A century later, Mark Twain stripped bare
Before modernists invented stream of consciousness; before John Dos Passos came up with the idea of making a novel out of four narrative modes – including “newsreel” montages of press clippings and “camera eye” sequences of autobiographical free association; before postmodernists eschewed linear narrative progression in favour of experimentation, chance, irony, collage and self-reflexivity; before bloggers filled the blogosphere with of-the-moment short personal timely takes on the news; before Jon Stewart broadcast sharp satirical riffs on the day’s events, there was Mark Twain, doing all of the above and more in a book meant to be published only after he had been dead 100 years.
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