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Title: |
a, A Novel |
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| By (author): |
Derek Beaulieu |
| ISBN10-13: |
2365680194 : 9782365680196 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
480 |
| Weight: |
.815 Kg. |
| Published: |
JBE - June 2017 |
| List Price: |
25.00 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
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| Derek Beaulieuâ s a, A Novel is an erasure-based translative response to Andy Warholâ s eponymous novel. Beaulieu carefully erases all of the text on each page of the original work, leaving only the punctuation marks, typistsâ insertions and onomatopoeic words. The resultant text is a novelistic ballet mécanique, a visual orchestration of the traffic signals and street noise of 1960â s New York City. This visually powerful half score/half novel highlights the musicality of non-narrative sounds embedded within conversation. Published in the autumn of 1968, Andy Warholâ s a, A Novel consists solely of the transcribed conversations of Factory denizen Ondine (Robert Olivo). Ondineâ s amphetamine-addled conversations were captured on audiotape as he haunted the Factory, hailed cabs to late-night parties and traded gossip with Warhol and his coterie. The tapes were transcribed by a small group of high school students. Rife with typographic errors, censored sections, and a chorus of voices, the 451 pages of transcription became, unedited, â a new kind of pop artefactâ . These pages emphasize transcription over narration, chance over composition. In his book, Derek Beaulieu offers a radical displacement of Andy Warholâ s work. He erases the novelâ s speaking characters â members of the mid-1960s New York avant-garde â and preserves only the musicality of their conversations. Beaulieu perfectly provides a tangible example of Theodor Adornoâ s theory elaborated in his essay â Punctuation Marksâ (1956), in which he argues that punctuation marks are the â traffic signalsâ of literature and that there is â no element in which language resembles music more than in the punctuation marksâ . This visual poetry is accompanied by an essay by Gilda Williams, â Breaking Up is Hard to Do. Men, Women, and Punctuation in Warholâ s Novel aâ . Her deep knowledge of both Andy Warholâ s work and the history of contemporary art explores the complicated history of the original novel and highlights the urgent and precise spirit of Derek Beaulieuâ s workâ the work of an artist who situates Uncreative Writing at the core of contemporary literature and also shows in his book a feminist gesture. |
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