The Wake and the Manuscript - Couverture souple

Allen, Ansgar

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0999153595 ISBN 13 : 9780999153598

Editeur : Anti-Oedipus Press, 2022

Synopsis

In this brooding and obsessive novel, Ansgar Allen recounts the story of a nameless man who attends a funerary wake with no other distraction than papers that once belonged to the body on display. The deceased considered the papers to be his magnum opus, a text that unraveled everything he had been educated to accept, beginning with the spectre of religion-namely The Church of Christ, Scientist-and ending with the very fabric of educated, civilized thought. Allen's protagonist thinks he's above the conclusions drawn in the titular manuscript, but the blurred lines between what he reads and what he sees in himself incite an apocalypse of introspection. The result is a dark, labyrinthine attempt to diminish (and eventually annihilate) the memory of the man who came to rest on the table before him. Literary and existential, The Wake and the Manuscript explores the vagaries of death, identity, desire, and indoctrination as it (un)buries a history of delusion that speaks volumes about the human condition.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Anti-Oedipus Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0999153595
• ISBN 13: 9780999153598
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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