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CARCAN ET fiction
CHRISTINE BROOKE-ROSE
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Zing! zinging out through the glowsalties the pungent ammonia earthfarts in slithery clay and all the rest to make simple sweeties and sharpies and other stuffs. Dust out of vast crashes and currents now calmer as the crust thickens and all cools a bit Over many many forevers.
Waiting. Absorbing. Growing. Churning. Splitting.
Over and Over.
from Chapter 1, 'Euka'
We are inside a pre-biotic chemical reaction some 4,500 million years ago, as it suddenly forms a membrane and becomes a prokaryot cell. Then a eukaryot cell. Then a multicellular organism. That's for the first chapter, and from the cell's viewpoint.
Christine Brooke-Rose blends her well-developed narratorless technique with a drastic extension of a very ancient convention, that of lending words to creatures that have none, indeed have no consciousness, to move steadily through evolution to the earliest human species, ending some 3,000 years before agriculture and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

CARCAN ET fiction
CHRISTINE BROOKE-ROSE
Subscript
Zing! zinging out through the glowsalties the pungent ammonia earthfarts in slithery clay and all the rest to make simple sweeties and sharpies and other stuffs. Dust out of vast crashes and currents now calmer as the crust thickens and all cools a bit Over many many forevers.
Waiting. Absorbing. Growing. Churning. Splitting.
Over and Over.
from Chapter 1, 'Euka'
We are inside a pre-biotic chemical reaction some 4,500 million years ago, as it suddenly forms a membrane and becomes a prokaryot cell. Then a eukaryot cell. Then a multicellular organism. That's for the first chapter, and from the cell's viewpoint.
Christine Brooke-Rose blends her well-developed narratorless technique with a drastic extension of a very ancient convention, that of lending words to creatures that have none, indeed have no consciousness, to move steadily through evolution to the earliest human species, ending some 3,000 years before agriculture and some 8,000 years before the earliest writing appeared.
'We always need to have somebody who is willing to venture into the still vast terra incognita of fiction.'
Sunday Telegraph
Christine Brooke-Rose was born in Geneva and educated at Somerville College, Oxford and at University College, London. She taught at the University of Paris, Vincennes, from 1968 to 1988 and now lives in the south of France. Carcanet have published her novels Amalgamemnon, Xorandor, Verbivore, Textermination, Wexi and The Brooke-Rose Omnibus (collecting her earlier novels Out, Such, Between and Thru) and the autobiographical Remake.
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