Babel by Burns, Alan

Babel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780714549170)

Vendor: Alan Burns
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Format: Paperback
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Babel by Burns, Alan

Babel

$12.00
Babel by Burns, Alan

Babel

$12.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Alan Burns
ISBN-10: 0714549177
ISBN-13: 9780714549170
Publisher: Calder Publications
Language: English
Published: 03/10/2020
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.50d
By Alan Burns
By Alan Burns
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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).

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