No-body: A Novel in Parts
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In his first foray into long-form fiction, subtitled a novel in parts, theater director/playwright Richard Foreman takes the reader on a journey through the mind of a man attempting to be a poet in modern America, living as Ralph Waldo Emerson advised writers to: as a transcendental eyeball, observing the world and discovering its symbols as they reveal themselves. Foreman tells his story through a series of personas: Eddie, the Mind King, The Amateur Genius, The Suburbanite, The Hero Cadmus, Samuel, and Samuel II, each of whom has a different perspective on a surreal world, but each of which seems to be another facet of a single fragmented personality/point of view, accompanied by the same two long suffering women, Helen and Marie. The nonlinear writing style is a direct adaptation of Foreman's avant-garde stage style in plays like My Head Was a Sledgehammer. Adventurous readers are advised to just read through, and allow the effect to build cumulatively, like that of music. Then to read through again. This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0879516216
ISBN13:9780879516215
Release Date:November 1996
Publisher:Harry N. Abrams
Length:212 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 5.6" x 8.3"
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