I Hear Voices
SKU:
1046
$12.00
$12.00
Paperback, jacketed, 224 pages, 6 x 9", 1990, 0-929701-04-6
For the hardcover edition, go here.
At once confined and liberated by his madness, the hero and narrator of I Hear Voices takes us on journeys through his private, transfigured city. The vehicle is his own deranged mind, fueled by the absurdities of modern life. Lovers of Beckett and Ionesco will recognize much in Paul Abelman's world, where the fantastic and the real coexist in a hilarious, disquieting detente. This first American edition brings to a new audience a literary masterpiece which was originally published in 1958 by Olympia Press in Paris; and, in fact, Maurice Girodias, who was also responsible for first issuing Lolita and The Ginger Man, claimed that I Hear Voices was the book that gave him the greatest pleasure to publish.
For the hardcover edition, go here.
At once confined and liberated by his madness, the hero and narrator of I Hear Voices takes us on journeys through his private, transfigured city. The vehicle is his own deranged mind, fueled by the absurdities of modern life. Lovers of Beckett and Ionesco will recognize much in Paul Abelman's world, where the fantastic and the real coexist in a hilarious, disquieting detente. This first American edition brings to a new audience a literary masterpiece which was originally published in 1958 by Olympia Press in Paris; and, in fact, Maurice Girodias, who was also responsible for first issuing Lolita and The Ginger Man, claimed that I Hear Voices was the book that gave him the greatest pleasure to publish.
"Exceptionally funny, in its dialogue, eccentric characters and dead-pan style." — Washington Post Book World
"Arresting and brilliant... A breathtaking precision about states of mind, played off against a hilarious vagueness about physical reality." — New York Times Book Review
"Complex, intriguing . . . with great verbal playfulness." — Publishers Weekly
"Psychodrama, mythic journey, and an exciting diversion." — Kirkus Reviews
"Arresting and brilliant... A breathtaking precision about states of mind, played off against a hilarious vagueness about physical reality." — New York Times Book Review
"Complex, intriguing . . . with great verbal playfulness." — Publishers Weekly
"Psychodrama, mythic journey, and an exciting diversion." — Kirkus Reviews
To come.