All of This Unreal Time
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What would you say if you had one ideal chance to speak yourself, to make a language that spoke across time to those you have loved, to those you have wronged, to all those countless human and non-human lives that have intersected and impacted on yours, with or without your knowledge? Max Porter’s All of This Unreal Time takes this idea – the poetic concept of ‘perfect speech’ – and turns it into a wild, psycholo-delic apology rant. Moving with Porter’s peerless linguistic skill between a single speaker’s self-lacerating ‘apology’ to an excavation of family trauma, late-capitalist guilt and rage and the shame that attends–that must attend – modern masculinity. All this is, of course, handled with the usual slipperiness and smarts – where nothing is quite as it seems, pregnant with its opposite, a shape-shifting tour-de-force of voice and concept from our most exciting contemporary writer. MAX PORTER is the multi-award-winning author of four books. His work has been translated into 33 languages. He is a frequent collaborator with musicians, artists, theatre-makers and filmmakers. His Rough Trade Books debut was It’s Going To Be a Bright New Day with Bonnie “Prince” Billy in 2020.
Publisher : Rough Trade Books
Publication date : 25 Oct. 2024
Language : English
Print length : 110 pages
ISBN-10 : 1914236475
ISBN-13 : 978-1914236471
Item weight : 30 g
Dimensions : 15 x 11 x 3 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 34,171 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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