A boozy ex-military captain trapped in a mysterious vessel searches for his runaway son, an aging superhero settles into academia, and a professional "dystopianist" receives a visit from a suicidalsheep. "Men and Cartoons" contains eleven fantastical, amusing, and moving stories written in a dizzyin
Cartoons
โ Scribed by Kit Schluter
- Book ID
- 115173323
- Publisher
- City Lights Publishers
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 9 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780872869066
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โฆ Synopsis
One of The Millions Most Anticipated Books for Spring !
Set in the uncanny valley between Bugs Bunny and Franz Kafka,Cartoons is an explosive series of outrageous, absurdist tales.
"The true surrealist is unblinking, convulsive, and cheerfully open to the mysterious flow, into their texts, of mythic and archetypal elements operating beyond their conscious control. In Cartoons , Kit Schluter vaults into the zone of Julio Cortazar, Richard Brautigan, and late Giorgio di Chirico, where the reader breaths the air of pure freedom attained rattling inside the chains of self."-- Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn
More than simply a book, Cartoons proposes itself as a genre of imaginary writing in opposition to the realism of most contemporary U.S. fiction, aligning itself with the French symbolism and Latin American fabulism its author is known to translate. A giant cricket with a...
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