Crackup at the Race Riots - Couverture souple

Korine, Harmony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571197957 ISBN 13 : 9780571197958

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 1999

Synopsis

Harmony Korine burst onto the scene with his screenplay for Kids - a film so gritty and unsettling in its depiction of teenage sex that it was almost banned in the UK. A Crackup at the Race Riots is similarly controversial. The novel is without plot, linear narrative, character development or scene setting. In other words, it is totally original. The book is a montage that takes literary convention and explodes it in a sequence of half-remembered scenes, suicide notes, dialogue fragments, movie ideas, rumours and jokes. Korine captures the fragmented moments of a life observed through the demented lens of media, tv and teen obsession. Korine's darkly bizarre imaginationhas created the ultimate post-postmodern novel - funny, offensive, depraved and sad.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This reprinting of Korine's first novel presents fragments of a portrait in multimedia: print, photographs, drawings, news clippings, handwriting, a poem, attempted diagrams, clip art; but mostly text, including hard-luck stories, off-and-on-colour jokes, script-scraps, found letters, free rhymes, drug flashbacks and other scenes, exploring the world of show-biz with feet set lightly in the black humours of the real ol' world. This excretion of the danglers of public life would make William Burroughs sigh and turn the page, at least.

Revue de presse

'Like all of Korine's work, it is a rare collision of fun, f**ked, funny, sad and bizarre - the kind of thing you pick up every so often just to buzz your brain.' Vice

'It is an antinovel in the way that his films are anti-films. It falls into the classification of books without classification. It fits neatly into Korine's aesthetic and wider body of work.' --The Quietus

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571197957
• ISBN 13: 9780571197958
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible