Peter Turchi: All Around the World, or the Myth of Linearity (July 2011)

Peter Turchi draws on a range of writing, including non-fiction by Tim Ingold and Kandinsky, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, and short stories by Italo Calvino, Andre Dubus and Alice Munro, to challenge the idea that our reading experience should follow a clear line from one fixed point to another.  Instead, Turchi suggests, the reader can be encouraged to dwell in the story’s labyrinth, and even find that dwelling pleasurable.