In Greater America, with sleep under siege, this lucid and
prophetic novel of ideas depicts the end of human reverie. An
unnamed, unemployed, dream-prone narrator finds himself following
Chevauchet, diplomat of Onirica, a foreign republic of dreams, to
resist a prohibition on sleep in near-future Greater America. On a
mission to combat the state-sponsored drugging of citizens with
uppers for greater productivity, they traverse an eerie landscape
in an everlasting autumn, able to see inside other people's
nightmares and dreams. As Comprehensive Illusion - a social
media-like entity that hijacks creativity - overtakes the masses,
Chevauchet, the old radical, weakens and disappears, leaving our
narrator to take up Chevauchet's dictum that "daydreaming is
directly subversive" and forge ahead on his own. In slippery,
exhilarating, and erudite prose, The Eyelid revels in the
camaraderie of free thinking that can only happen on the lam,
aiming to rescue a species that can no longer dream. "S. D.
Chrostowska's The Eyelid is a brilliant, visionary satire on the
digital mindscape of twenty-first-century late capitalism embodied
in the new global state of Greater America. Insomnia is in; dreams
are seditious; sleep is outlawed. Lulled by false fantasies
projected by Artificial Intelligence (CI in the book), video games,
and media collaborators, humans drug themselves to stay awake so
they can slave through the now standard twenty-hour work days.
Witty, oracular, Surreal, trenchant, politically astute, and often
hilarious, The Eyelid is a throwback to the classics of the genre,
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Samuel Butler's Erewhon. We
are turning into a race of sleep-deprived automatons, Chrostowska
warns, increasingly unable to mount political opposition or even
dream a different future." -Douglas Glover
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