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Philippe Sollers' groundbreaking 1973 novel, H, draws inspiration from the May 1968 Paris student/worker uprising and challenges conventional norms in literature. Described as "a music that is inscribed in language" (Julia Kristeva) and an "unpunctuated wall of words" (David Hayman), H eliminates plot, character, and setting, as well as punctuation, capitalization, and paragraph breaks, to create what Sollers termed "an external polylogue." The text embodies an infinite fragmentation of subjectivity, featuring a multitude of ventriloquized voices where "words turn round and come back, producing a material fullness of pleasures." This "suffocation" may be seen as its "beauty," according to Roland Barthes. With a rich array of tonalities, attitudes, modes, and ideologies, H exemplifies Sollers' belief that a literary work exists only potentially, with its realization depending on the readings it inspires and the contexts in which they occur. The first English-language translation, by Veronika Stankovianska and David Vichnar, brings this influential experimental text to a wider audience.
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H, Philippe Sollers, Veronika Stankovianska, David Vichnar
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2015
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- H
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Philippe Sollers, Veronika Stankovianska, David Vichnar
- Verlag
- Equus Press
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2015
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 172
- ISBN10
- 0993195504
- ISBN13
- 9780993195501
- Reihe
- Kategorien
- Schlagwörter
- Weltliteratur
- Beschreibung
- Philippe Sollers' groundbreaking 1973 novel, H, draws inspiration from the May 1968 Paris student/worker uprising and challenges conventional norms in literature. Described as "a music that is inscribed in language" (Julia Kristeva) and an "unpunctuated wall of words" (David Hayman), H eliminates plot, character, and setting, as well as punctuation, capitalization, and paragraph breaks, to create what Sollers termed "an external polylogue." The text embodies an infinite fragmentation of subjectivity, featuring a multitude of ventriloquized voices where "words turn round and come back, producing a material fullness of pleasures." This "suffocation" may be seen as its "beauty," according to Roland Barthes. With a rich array of tonalities, attitudes, modes, and ideologies, H exemplifies Sollers' belief that a literary work exists only potentially, with its realization depending on the readings it inspires and the contexts in which they occur. The first English-language translation, by Veronika Stankovianska and David Vichnar, brings this influential experimental text to a wider audience.