Play, A Novel - Couverture souple

Singer, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1874400776 ISBN 13 : 9781874400776

Editeur : Grand Iota, 2020

Synopsis

Writer-director Pan Fleet plans a new experimental play for the off-Broadway stage: Killer Killing Killers, a montage of murder scenes, aiming to provoke his audience's ire with a work apparently amorally predicated on senseless violence. The plan is complicated by the intervention of his heart surgeon, who also fancies himself as a kind of "director" and by the surgeon's wife, an empathy-challenged child psychologist who clashes with Pan's leading lady.

The novel plays, so to speak, on the distinction between acting (doing something) and acting (playing a role). The narrative, which alternates between episodes of planning and rehearsing Pan's play and scenes that will be performed on opening night, presents a fiercely satirical staging of the problems we face whenever we attempt to do justice to other people's experience.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alan Singer is the author of five previous novels, most recently The Inquisitor's Tongue. He also writes about aesthetics and the visual arts. He is professor of English and a member of the MFA faculty in fiction at Temple University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Grand Iota
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1874400776
• ISBN 13: 9781874400776
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible