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John the Posthumous

By Jason Schwartz

Release : 2013-08-30

Genre : Literary Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature

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"After reading Jason Schwartz, it's difficult to talk about any other writer's originality or unique relation to the language. John the Posthumous is a work of astounding power and distinction, beautifully strange, masterful." —Sam Lipsyte
"[Schwartz] is complete, as genius agonizingly is." —Gordon Lish
"Haunting, original prose by a writer unlike any other on the planet. Jason Schwartz is a master." —Ben Marcus
John the Posthumous exists in between fiction and poetry, elegy and history: a kind of novella in objects, it is an anatomy of marriage and adultery, an interlocking set of fictional histories, and the staccato telling of a murder, perhaps two murders. This is a literary album of a pre-Internet world, focused on physical elements — all of which are tools for either violence or sustenance. Knives, old iron gates, antique houses in flames; Biblical citations, blood and a history of the American bed: the unsettling, half-perceived images, and their precise but alien manipulation by a master of the language will stay with readers. Its themes are familiar — violence, betrayal, failure — its depiction of these utterly original and hauntingly beautiful.

John the Posthumous

By Jason Schwartz

Release : 2013-08-30

Genre : Literary Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
"After reading Jason Schwartz, it's difficult to talk about any other writer's originality or unique relation to the language. John the Posthumous is a work of astounding power and distinction, beautifully strange, masterful." —Sam Lipsyte
"[Schwartz] is complete, as genius agonizingly is." —Gordon Lish
"Haunting, original prose by a writer unlike any other on the planet. Jason Schwartz is a master." —Ben Marcus
John the Posthumous exists in between fiction and poetry, elegy and history: a kind of novella in objects, it is an anatomy of marriage and adultery, an interlocking set of fictional histories, and the staccato telling of a murder, perhaps two murders. This is a literary album of a pre-Internet world, focused on physical elements — all of which are tools for either violence or sustenance. Knives, old iron gates, antique houses in flames; Biblical citations, blood and a history of the American bed: the unsettling, half-perceived images, and their precise but alien manipulation by a master of the language will stay with readers. Its themes are familiar — violence, betrayal, failure — its depiction of these utterly original and hauntingly beautiful.

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