Article: Literary witness: a starkly matter of fact realism. (literature and AIDS disease)

A starkly matter of fact realism

The last several years have seen an emergence of a literature of AIDS. Many of these novels and short stories are written in a raw, journalist tic or documentary style. The following excerpt is ftom "Slim," a short story by Adam Mars-Jones, collected in The Darker Proof.- Stories From a Crisis, New American Library, 1988:

I can't work. That should be pretty clear. But I've been lucky. I'm on extended sick leave for a while yet, and everybody's been very good. ...

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