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Babel

English · Paperback / Softback

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Babel, Alan Burns's fourth critically acclaimed novel, contains all the hallmarks of the aleatoric style he helped to define - shot through with seemingly random newspaper headlines, poems, snatches of conversation and anecdote, which both heighten and undermine meaning, and characterized by extreme contrasts of mood and style and startling surrealist juxtapositions of images and ideas.

By turns comic and tragic, tender and brutal, religious and blasphemous, the narrative rockets from London to the United States to Vietnam to interstellar space, familiar events are constantly fragmented and reset into new patterns, and ultimately Babel becomes a cautionary tale about the tragedy arising from attempting to build Utopia.

About the author










A trained lawyer, Alan Burns (1929-2013) became a celebrated novelist and playwright, loosely associated with the 1960s British experimental circle of writers led by B.S. Johnson. He is best known for Europe after the Rain (1965), Celebrations (1967), Babel (1969) and Dreamerika! (1972).

Summary

By turns comic and tragic, tender and brutal, religious and blasphemous, the narrative rockets from London to the United States to Vietnam to interstellar space, familiar events are constantly fragmented and reset into new patterns, and ultimately Babel becomes a cautionary tale about the tragedy arising from attempting to build Utopia.

Foreword

By turns comic and tragic, tender and brutal, religious and blasphemous, the narrative rockets from London to the United States to Vietnam to interstellar space.

Additional text

One of the two or three most interesting new novelists working in England.

Product details

Authors Alan Burns, BURNS ALAN
Publisher Alma Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.08.2019
 
EAN 9780714549170
ISBN 978-0-7145-4917-0
No. of pages 160
Dimensions 118 mm x 188 mm x 14 mm
Series Calder Publications
Calder Publications
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

surrealist; avant-garde; Vietnam

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