Failure of History of Great Sadness
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2020
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University of Hawaii at Manoa
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Failure of History of Great Sadness is an original, creative work that presents itself as a
blend of fiction, memoir, and literary criticism. The work is framed in such a way as to explain
two ideas: that an initial goal was pursued but failed to have been met, and that this failure is
actually an opportunity to develop a new work out of the old work’s remnants. The work
encourages a seamless interweaving of what is imagined and what is real, and suggests the
destruction of the boundaries between author and subject. Additionally, the work is a gallery of
aesthetic: there are many types of ways to write, and, to the author’s best ability, a number of
these ways are explored. The work of Failure of History of Great Sadness is, essentially, a
collection of short stories that each focus on their own particular subject — with the added
caveat that the work understands and proclaims itself to be an attempt at writing a thesis. But,
more than that, the work centrally addresses that which is elusive: as in, the spark that makes
magic into magic.
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146 pages
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