The bulk of any work of literature is extra-textual; it’s the context the work exists in. Which is of course not static. Putting a photo in a new frame can completely change how it lands. But the opposite also happens, sometimes something that didn’t land 20 years ago becomes uncomfortably prescient today.
The bulk of any work of literature is extra-textual; it’s the context the work exists in. Which is of course not static. Putting a photo in a new frame can completely change how it lands. But the opposite also happens, sometimes something that didn’t land 20 years ago becomes uncomfortably prescient today.