{"product_id":"h-9780993195501","title":"H","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSollers, Philippe:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Philippe Sollers is, quite simply, one of the most important post-war French writers, critics and public figures. The avant-garde journal \u003cem\u003eTel Quel\u003c\/em\u003e, which he cofounded in 1960 with the writer and art critic Marcelin Pleynet, gave a voice to a whole generation of French theorists, philosophers, writers, \u0026amp; activists. Sollers was also at the forefront of the May 1968 student revolutions in Paris--an experience behind his external polylogue, the textual stream entitled \u003cem\u003eH\u003c\/em\u003e (1973), whose English translation was published with Equus Press in late 2014. Sollers' most famous works include \u003cem\u003eNombres\u003c\/em\u003e (1966), \u003cem\u003eLois\u003c\/em\u003e (1972), \u003cem\u003eParadis\u003c\/em\u003e (1981), or \u003cem\u003eFemmes\u003c\/em\u003e (1983).","brand":"Equus Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50544265953554,"sku":"9780993195501","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5d8edbb8-eff7-4d38-b620-cbb6b622730a.jpg?v=1731525164","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/h-9780993195501","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}