Universal Bureau of Copyrights (Literature in Translation Series) - Softcover

Laverdure, Bertrand

Softcover

ISBN 10: 177166052X ISBN 13: 9781771660525

Verlag: Book*hug, 2014

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"Laverdure's clever commentary on identity, ownership, and control keeps us guessing right up to the end."
- The Times Literary Supplement

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From celebrated Quebecois author Bertrand Laverdure comes Universal Bureau of Copyrights, a bold, strange and addictive story that envisions a world where free will doesn't exist, and an enigmatic global corporation buys and sells the copyrights for all things on Earth, including real and fictional characters. Through this novel, which is part poetic narrative, part sci-fi-dystopian fantasy, readers become acquainted with the main character, a man who deconstructs himself as he navigates the mystifying passages of the story. Having no control over his environment, time continuum, or body, he is a puppet on strings, an icon in a video game and, as he eventually discovers within the bowels of the Universal Bureau of Copyrights, the object of countless copyrights. With touches of Vonnegut'sBreakfast of Champions and Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Universal Bureau of Copyrights packs a multitude of modern cultural references into an audacious exploration of identity and one's place in the world.

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• Verlag: Book*hug
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 177166052X
• ISBN 13: 9781771660525
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 152