{"product_id":"retrocede-paperback","title":"retrocede - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68350308614367,"sku":"9781916541061","price":24.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Q8sRAckEKC9781916541061.webp?v=1793397068","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/retrocede-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}