Babel (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Calder Publications Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Calder Publications
Release date:	October 2019
Authors:	Alan Burns
Dimensions:	129 x 197 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	160
ISBN-13:	978-0-7145-4917-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	0-7145-4917-7
Barcode:	9780714549170

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