Multiple languages means multiple forms of expression. In this day in age where literature competes so closely with other forms of entertainment like film and video games it is almost imperative that literature do all it can to stimulate people fully. I am reminded of the Ted Berrigan letter to Sandy where he describes his experience watching the french film “Last year at Marienbad”. In this letter he recounts his extremely positive experience with the foreign film to his wife. He writes “The movie shows the two of them. It shows the scenes he describes, as he describes them. It shows the vague flickers of memory in her. It shows her husband doing this and that. It shows things that might have happened, things that did happen, things that maybe didn 't happen”. When I think about this synopsis of the film I can 't help but wonder if his experience would have been the same without all the visual avant-garde and innovative methods that the film used to express its ideas to the audience. Bergians was aware that the film was french new wave not just because of the language but because of visual aspects of the
Multiple languages means multiple forms of expression. In this day in age where literature competes so closely with other forms of entertainment like film and video games it is almost imperative that literature do all it can to stimulate people fully. I am reminded of the Ted Berrigan letter to Sandy where he describes his experience watching the french film “Last year at Marienbad”. In this letter he recounts his extremely positive experience with the foreign film to his wife. He writes “The movie shows the two of them. It shows the scenes he describes, as he describes them. It shows the vague flickers of memory in her. It shows her husband doing this and that. It shows things that might have happened, things that did happen, things that maybe didn 't happen”. When I think about this synopsis of the film I can 't help but wonder if his experience would have been the same without all the visual avant-garde and innovative methods that the film used to express its ideas to the audience. Bergians was aware that the film was french new wave not just because of the language but because of visual aspects of the