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001 on1391676356
003 OCoLC
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008 231128s2024 cau 000 1 eng
010 _a 2023054629
040 _aDLC
_beng
_erda
_cDLC
_dOCLCO
_dOCLCF
_dOCLCO
_dBYN
_dNFG
020 _a9780872869288
_q(paperback)
020 _a0872869288
035 _a(OCoLC)1391676356
042 _apcc
092 _aSCHLUTER
_bKIT
049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aSchluter, Kit,
_eauthor,
_eillustrator.
245 1 0 _aCartoons /
_cKit Schluter.
263 _a2405
264 1 _aSan Francisco, CA :
_bCity Lights Books,
_c2024.
300 _a146 pages ;
_c21 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
520 _a"More than simply a book, Cartoons proposes itself as a genre of imaginary writing in opposition to the realism of most contemporary U.S. fiction, aligning itself with the French symbolism and Latin American fabulism its author is known to translate. A giant cricket with a tiny Kit Schluter in a jar, The Girl Who Is a Piece of Paper, an umbrella who confuses the words porpoise and purpose in its quest for self-fulfillment, these are just a few denizens of its pages, suffused with a fairy tale-like animism. A pair of slugs go on a bender. A microwave oven decries microaggressions. A beer bottle is filled with regret. An escalator mechanic's shoe conceals a terrible secret. As befits its title, Cartoons defies the laws of physics and fiction alike, eschewing tonal consistency in favor of a simultaneity of joy and horror, ecstasy and disgust, wrapped in an extravagant layer of black humor. The stories blur the boundary between microfiction and poet's prose, featuring impossible transformations and surrealistic events, even as they wrestle with urgent psychic and moral dilemmas. Heightening the atmosphere of pervasive unreality are a number of drawings by the author, which don't so much illustrate as parallel the tales with their own fantastic scenarios"--
_cProvided by publisher.
655 7 _aExperimental fiction.
_2lcgft
_993002
655 7 _aShort stories.
_2lcgft
_91945
655 7 _aEssays.
_2lcgft
_95184
994 _aC0
_bNFG
999 _c382893
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