The Age of Wire and String
In The Age of Wire and String Ben Marcus welds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past. Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles and the weather are some of the recycled elements in Marcus's first collection - part fiction, part handbook - as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar...
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In The Age of Wire and String Ben Marcus welds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past. Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles and the weather are some of the recycled elements in Marcus's first collection - part fiction, part handbook - as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar meanings. Gradually, this makeshift world, in its defiance of the laws of physics and language, finds a foundation in its own implausibility, as Marcus produces new feelings and sensations - both comic and disturbing - in the definitive guide to an unpredictable yet exhilarating plane of existence.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781847086389 (1847086381)
Publish date: August 2nd 2013
Publisher: Granta Books
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Fun, brainy book - I had a blast with this one.
Ben Marcus is a genius and I love hurting my brain trying to picture what he describes.
I don't know any of any other work from Marcus but this book seems to me to be a novelist who has been reading a lot of Artaud.Lots of great short pieces that you can just flip through whenever you need something to keep your attention.
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