Buster: Alan Burns - Softcover

Burns, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714549207 ISBN 13: 9780714549200

Verlag: Calder Publications Ltd, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Buster was the first, and arguably the most traditional, work of fiction by Alan Burns – dating from before his aleatoric style developed into “cutting up”, but displaying early examples of the trademark disjointed, brisk and biting style which earned him a cult following. Imbued with autobiographical sentiment, the novel shows a young man's upbringing during World War II and his disillusioned vision of the post-war world.

Never before published in standalone volume form since its original publication in the inaugural New Writers anthology in 1961, Buster is characteristically succinct and of huge literary merit, but in its autobiographical and pre-aleatoric style it provides, perhaps more importantly, a key to understanding the rest of Burns's works.

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A trained lawyer, Alan Burns (1929 2013) became a celebrated novelist and playwright, loosely associated with the 1960s British experimental circle of writers led by B.S. Johnson. He is best known for Europe after the Rain (1965), Celebrations (1967), Babel (1969) and Dreamerika! (1972).

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Celebrations, Alan Burns's third novel, brings the inherent violence and oppression so apparent in Europe after the Rain into the setting of a family-owned factory, where social hierarchies, legal structures and humiliation keep the workers in line. By bringing the differences between workers sharply into focus, Burns creates a choking atmosphere of oppression and exploitation - heightened and upended by his trademark aleatoric style, peppering with seemingly random headlines and offcuts the text, which has not lost any of either its relevance or its acerbic bite in the intervening years.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Calder Publications Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0714549207
• ISBN 13: 9780714549200
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112
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