A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR CONCRETE ISLANDS NO. 1 BOOK OF THE
YEAR 'In a dizzying gyroscopic vortex of inner archeology, David
Keenan sifts through spiraling past lives to unearth his
provocative vision of the future. A colossus of imagination' LENNY
KAYE 'Visionary and prismatic, gloriously hallucinatory although
grounded in the material, Monument Maker's grand sweep takes in
distant historical subterrains, a shimmering summer of the present,
the transient, the eternal, the profane, the divine' WENDY ERSKINE
'I sometimes think David Keenan dreams aloud. His prose has the
effortless enigmatic, unsettling quality of dream' EDNA O'BRIEN 'A
masterpiece' WILLIAM BASINSKI Is it possible for books to dream?
For books to dream within books? Is there a literary subterranea
that would facilitate ingress and exit points through these dreams?
These are some of the questions posed by David Keenan's masterly
fifth novel, Monument Maker, an epic romance of eternal summer and
a descent, into history, into the horrors of the past; a novel with
a sweep and range that runs from the siege of Khartoum and the
conquest of Africa in the 19th century through the Second World War
and up to the present day, where the memory of a single summer, and
a love affair that took place across the cathedrals of Ile de
France, unravels, as a secret initiatory cult is uncovered that has
its roots in macabre experiments in cryptozoology in pre-war
Europe. MONUMENT MAKER straddles genres while fully embracing none
of them, a book within a book within a book that runs from
hallucinatory historical epics through future-visioned histories of
the world narrated by a horribly disfigured British soldier made
prophetic by depths of suffering; books that interact with Keenan's
earlier novels, including a return to the mythical post-punk
Airdrie landscape of his now classic debut, THIS IS MEMORIAL
DEVICE; whole histories of art and religion; books that are
glorious choral appendices; bibliographies; imagined films; tape
recorded interviews; building to a jubilant accumulation of
registers, voices and rhythms that is truly Choral. Written over
the course of 10 years, MONUMENT MAKER represents the apex of
Keenan's project to create books that contain uncanny life and feel
like living organisms. It is a meditation on art and religion, and
on what it means to make monument; this great longing for something
eternal, something that could fix moments in time, forever.
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