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A Book of Chinese Whispers
Ken Smith
出版
Bloodaxe Books
, 1987
主題
Fiction / General
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
Poetry / General
Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN
0906427932
9780906427934
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mLUhAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
These prose pieces develop areas and images encountered elsewhere in Smith's poetry. Some are fictions, some fables, some prose poems, some ill-tempered jokes, some existential romances with mundane reality. As in the game of Chinese Whispers, messages are passed, repeated, misheard, misremembered, delicately tampered with, and fiddled with in the interests of politics, commerce and the pursuit of power. Even the language is suspect, as are our perceptions. Our hero struggles to survive against all the odds, invited apparently to forget all he knows and begin again at the beginning. Or at the end. Smith writes in the radical tradition of Borges, Brautigan, Burroughs, and Buster Keaton.