{"product_id":"h-philippe-sollers-9780993195501","title":"H","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhilippe Sollers' groundbreaking 1973 novel, H, was inspired by the May 1968 Paris student\/worker uprising, and, in its own right, performs a revolt against much that's been (and still is) taken for granted in the belles lettres.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescribed as \"a music that is inscribed in language, becoming the object of its own reasoning\" (Julia Kristeva) and as an \"unpunctuated wall of words, an extremely active [...] mass of language\" (David Hayman), H does away with plot, character and setting-and, on the typographical level, with punctuation, capitalisation, or paragraph breaks-in order to attempt what Sollers himself called \"an external polylogue.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe text performs an infinite fragmentation of subjectivity into a plethora of ventriloquized voices where \"words turn round and come back, producing a material fullness of pleasures\" and \"everything is organized into a splendid series of irrelevancies\" (Roland Barthes). It is this fulness of H, this \"suffocation\" it produces, that might be, with Barthes, termed its \"beauty.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccommodating a vast range of tonalities, attitudes, modes, and ideologies, H makes a case in point of how a literary work should function according to Sollers: \"A work exists by itself only potentially, and its actualization (or production) depends on its readings and on the moments at which these readings actively take place.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eH (translated by Veronika Stankovianska \u0026amp; David Vichnar) will become the first English-language translation of this influential experimental text. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philippe Sollers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0993195504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780993195501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Equus Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/26\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.80h x 4.50w x 0.90d","brand":"Philippe Sollers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43996192178431,"sku":"9780993195501","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0f58ac5f-1526-474a-a843-4eb416198760.jpg?v=1683340265","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/h-philippe-sollers-9780993195501","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}