Citizen Steele - Couverture souple

Shaindlin, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0983504148 ISBN 13 : 9780983504146

Editeur : Deuxmers, LLC, 2015

Synopsis

An outcast intellectual schizophrenic attorney charged with murder in a dark metropolis employs the philosophy of a master to assess his own guilt.

“It is difficult to successfully mine the roots of ones own adult agony as relates to past experiences that may constitute a shrouded yet undeniable platform for current behavioral toxicity. I store my memories in clear glass jars. My periodic amnesia is much like a wall that blocks my ability to return to the past with a view towards coercing the future. Only occasionally does my memory return to provide me a door to what was and what may have long ago made me what I am in moments unbeknownst to me.”

And so, attorney Richard Jason Steele—at first detached, and eventually, unhinged by increasing schizophrenia, begins an extensive and deep inward mental exploration of circumstances which bring him face to face with execution. He draws and relies upon the wisdom of his idol, the late philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein—who in the end, arguably disappoints him.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Citizen Steele shatters the conventions of the contemporary novel: in the spirit of Durrell and Proust, time is amorphous and arbitrary—only two constantly colliding aspects of humanity exist, philosophy and events. The book begins as narrative and concludes poetically; the reader rather than the author dictates reality.

Adrift in self-imposed emotional and spiritual oblivion, reclusive attorney Richard Jason Steele struggles through alarming personal and professional anxieties to isolate and define the roots of his lethargy by embracing yet ultimately rejecting the philosophical paradigms of his one-time intellectual idol Ludwig Wittgenstein.

His escalating deconstruction of the philosopher’s magnum opus Tractatus-Logico Philosophicus parallels the collapse of his own legacy upon arrest for a violent crime that pits his own ethical theories against the grim realities of life under the threat of execution.

In his growing anguish Steele probes beyond metaphysical voids that only Houellebecq so far has stared head-on: “Not everything can be explained. There is thought and so there is reason, and so there is hope but inevitably, despair. An inanimate idea would be the perfect expression of infinity as a conscious state of mind... a parallax portal by which one could stop living momentarily in organic terms, perhaps long enough to exchange ideas with God.”

Présentation de l'éditeur

Adrift in self-imposed emotional and spiritual oblivion, reclusive attorney Richard Jason Steele struggles through alarming personal and professional anxieties to isolate and define the roots of his lethargy by embracing yet ultimately rejecting the philosophical paradigms of his one-time intellectual idol Ludwig Wittgenstein. His escalating deconstruction of the philosopher’s magnum opus Tractatus-Logico Philosophicus parallels the collapse of his own legacy upon arrest for a violent crime that pits his own ethical theories against the grim realities of life under the threat of execution. In his growing anguish Steele probes beyond metaphysical voids that only Houllebecq so far has stared head-on: “Not everything can be explained. There is thought and so there is reason, and so there is hope but inevitably, despair. An inanimate idea would be the perfect expression of infinity as a conscious state of mind... a parallax portal by which one could stop living momentarily in organic terms, perhaps long enough to exchange ideas with God.”

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Deuxmers, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0983504148
• ISBN 13: 9780983504146
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 136
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