H - Philippe Sollers
Fiction. Art. Translated from the French by Veronika Stankovianska and David Vichnar. Philippe Sollers' groundbreaking 1973 novel H was inspired by the May 1968 Paris student/worker uprising, and, in…
Specifikacia H - Philippe Sollers
Fiction. Art. Translated from the French by Veronika Stankovianska and David Vichnar. Philippe Sollers' groundbreaking 1973 novel H was inspired by the May 1968 Paris student/worker uprising, and, in its own right, performs a revolt against much that's been (and still is) taken for granted in the belles lettres.Described as a music that is inscribed in language, becoming the object of its own reasoning (Julia Kristeva) and as an unpunctuated wall of words, an extremely active [...] mass of language (David Hayman), H does away with plot, character and setting--and, on the typographical level, with punctuation, capitalisation, or paragraph breaks--in order to attempt what Sollers himself called an external polylogue. The text performs an infinite fragmentation of subjectivity into a polyphony of ventriloquized voices where words turn round and come back, producing a material