{"product_id":"retrocede-michael-mc-aloran-9781916541061","title":"retrocede","description":"\u003cp\u003e... \u003cem\u003eretrocede\u003c\/em\u003e is a series of experimental texts written in varying, disembodied vocal styles. Meaning is not absolute. There are no characters, there is no plot, nor is it indeed a novel in any conventional sense. The context is the written now. There are traces \u0026amp; meditations on perspective and language, voice \u0026amp; nothingness; the corporeal and the 'raw teeth of extinction'. The book takes its origins from a burgeoning sense of exile, \u0026amp; futility; violence has its place in the linguistics of the texts, the imagery... (made to rust, in the burning non-chambers of the ideational, taken as was once from the emptily of dispel, as dreaming a broken history to the point of non-exist, in a present\/presence continuum, ever as of the once knowing little of the what of as of all... a sickly strain of diseased language rotting its innards out from the echo within the echo, the coil with each form that sanguine gives its traces...)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\/\/\/\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A nihilistic experience. As if flies enter the mouth, the room, the rotation of thought-what reality or whose? Lynch's \u003cem\u003eMulholland Drive\u003c\/em\u003e-dumpster-monster-scene meets paint splatter and methodical prose. Mc Aloran's writing tackles modernism's complex legacy in Joyce's wake-one hundred years on. At the inscrutable core, that inner contingency: what do we name the sap, the nectar, the marrow? Retrograde, without agenda, Mc Aloran points with obsolescence to obsolescence... \u003cem\u003eretrocede's\u003c\/em\u003e metaphysical alteration of linear patterns carry the reader through chaotic undulations. Language is dispossessed, Shakespearian, confrontational. Yet as bedlam congeals, we find harmony itself is an inescapable shadow.\" -- Maureen Alsop\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael MC Aloran\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1916541062\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781916541061\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Erratum Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.48h x 4.72w x 0.25d","brand":"Michael MC Aloran","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47305433153791,"sku":"9781916541061","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6f0d520f-3679-4ce2-9b05-3628bea94bd7.jpg?v=1758830866","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/retrocede-michael-mc-aloran-9781916541061","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}