The Unnameable Object - Brossura

Rowland, Michael

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1739431065 ISBN 13: 9781739431068

Casa editrice: Equus Press, 2025

Riassunto

The Unnameable Object is an epic experiment in collective memory and literary excess. Subtitled "100 Prague Cantos," it assembles fragments of memoir, fiction, satire, and hallucination into a polyphonic chronicle of Prague's literary underground. At once comic and elegiac, the book moves through bars, festivals, squats, and lecture halls, capturing the unruly lives of poets, musicians, and misfits who have made the city their stage. Its prose is by turns lyrical and abrasive, channeling Joycean invention, Woolfian drift, and Sex Pistols irreverence, while invoking the ghosts of Eliot, Ginsberg, and the Prague surrealists. This is not a linear narrative but a carnival of voices, a dérive through decades of Central European counterculture. Characters come and go-half-fictional, half-remembered-while Prague itself emerges as the book's true protagonist: haunted, absurd, intoxicating, and unnameable. A testament and a provocation, The Unnameable Object is both archive and experiment, a novel that insists literature is inseparable from friendship, rebellion, and the chaotic vitality of lived life.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Equus Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1739431065
• ISBN 13: 9781739431068
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 314
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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