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Dead Souls
Sam Riviere
其他書名
A Novel
出版
Catapult
, 2022-07-19
主題
Fiction / Magical Realism
Fiction / Visionary & Metaphysical
Fiction / Epistolary
ISBN
1646221338
9781646221332
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-IZLEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
For readers of Roberto Bolaño's
Savage Detectives
and Muriel Spark's
Loitering with Intent
, this "sublime" and "delightfully unhinged" metaphysical mystery disguised as a picaresque romp follows one poet's spectacular fall from grace to ask a vital question: Is everyone a plagiarist? (Nicolette Polek, author of
Imaginary Museums
).
A scandal has shaken the literary world. As the unnamed narrator of
Dead Souls
discovers at a cultural festival in central London, the offender is Solomon Wiese, a poet accused of plagiarism. Later that same evening, at a bar near Waterloo Bridge, our narrator encounters the poet in person, and listens to the story of Wiese's rise and fall, a story that takes the entire night—and the remainder of the novel—to tell.
Wiese reveals his unconventional views on poetry, childhood encounters with "nothingness," a conspiracy involving the manipulation of documents in the public domain, an identity crisis, a retreat to the country, a meeting with an ex-serviceman with an unexpected offer, the death of an old poet, a love affair with a woman carrying a signpost, an entanglement with a secretive poetry cult, and plans for a triumphant return to the capital, through the theft of poems, illegal war profits, and faked social media accounts—plans in which our narrator discovers he is obscurely implicated.
Dead Souls
is a metaphysical mystery brilliantly encased in a picaresque romp, a novel that asks a vital question for anyone who makes or engages with art: Is everyone a plagiarist?
