{"product_id":"h-9780993195501","title":"H","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Philippe Sollers | Veronika Stankovianska | David Vichnar\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Equus Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Equus Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilippe Sollers' groundbreaking 1973 novel, H, was inspired by the May 1968 Paris student\/worker uprising, and, in its own right, performs a revolt against much that's been (and still is) taken for granted in the belles lettres.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescribed as \"a music that is inscribed in language, becoming the object of its own reasoning\" (Julia Kristeva) and as an \"unpunctuated wall of words, an extremely active [...] mass of language\" (David Hayman), H does away with plot, character and setting-and, on the typographical level, with punctuation, capitalisation, or paragraph breaks-in order to attempt what Sollers himself called \"an external polylogue.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe text performs an infinite fragmentation of subjectivity into a plethora of ventriloquized voices where \"words turn round and come back, producing a material fullness of pleasures\" and \"everything is organized into a splendid series of irrelevancies\" (Roland Barthes). It is this fulness of H, this \"suffocation\" it produces, that might be, with Barthes, termed its \"beauty.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccommodating a vast range of tonalities, attitudes, modes, and ideologies, H makes a case in point of how a literary work should function according to Sollers: \"A work exists by itself only potentially, and its actualization (or production) depends on its readings and on the moments at which these readings actively take place.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eH (translated by Veronika Stankovianska \u0026amp; David Vichnar) will become the first English-language translation of this influential experimental text. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46505433038999,"sku":"9780993195501","price":1352.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780993195501.webp?v=1769193821","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/h-9780993195501","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}