Стивен Холл3.7 Впервые на русском — самый поразительный дебют в британской прозе последних лет! Этого автора сравнивали с Филипом Диком и Майклом Крайтоном, Дугласом Адамсом и Харуки Мураками.
Герой книги, Эрик Андерсен (второй), ничего не помнит о своей прошлой жизни: врачи полагают, что всю память стерла сильнейшая травма. Однако Эрик получает письма от Эрика Андерсена (первого), который объясняет ему, как составить из четырех диктофонов бездивергентную концептуальную петлю, как найти Комитет по исследованию внепространственного мира, как расшифровать Фрагмент о лампе...
Но все эти полумеры не спасут Эрика от безжалостного хищника, неутомимо идущего по его следу. Ключ к спасению — у городской партизанки Скаут, с ее ментоловыми сигаретами и гранатами, собранными из клавиш пишущей машинки...
Adam Thirlwell0.0 Having slept with a prostitute in Egypt, a young French novelist named Gustave Flaubert at last abandons sentimentality and begins to write. He influences the obscure French writer Édouard Dujardin, who is read by James Joyce on the train to Trieste, where he will teach English to the Italian novelist Italo Svevo. Back in Paris, Joyce asks Svevo to deliver a suitcase containing notes for Ulysses, a novel that will be viscerated by the expat Gertrude Stein, whose first published story is based on one by Flaubert.
This carousel of influence shows how translation and emigration lead to a new and true history of the novel. We devour novels in translation while believing that style does not translate. But the history of the novel is the history of style. The Delighted States attempts to solve this conundrum while mapping an imaginary country, a country of readers: the Delighted States.
This book is a provocation, a box of tricks, a bedside travel book; it is also a work of startling intelligence and originality from one of our finest young writers.
Гвендолин Райли0.0 In her third novel, Riley charts the peculiar final reckoning of a highly charged romance, exploring the possibility of human connection as two young people try to reconcile themselves to all of life’s bad endings, and give some meaning to their mayfly existences.
Ник Лэйрд0.0 Laird's debut collection, To a Fault (2005), signalled the arrival of a significant new talent, 'doing more, in its range and ambition,' wrote Deryn Rees-Jones in the Independent, 'than any first collection I can think of in at least the last ten years.' On Purpose confirms the promise of that first book and shows the author hitting new and yet more athletic strides.
Blending tones of assurance and delicacy, of confidence and vulnerability, On Purpose is a collection of poems that takes care and consideration in examining the often brutal arena of human relations, concluding with a mercurial and affecting sequence about a marriage, which takes, as its point of departure, that most influential of military treatise, The Art of War.
