Head in Flames

Olsen, Lance

Omschrijving

Head in Flames is an astonishing collage novel composed of chips of sensation, observation, memory, and quotation shaped into a series of narraticules told by three alternating voices, each inhabiting a different font and aesthetic / political / existential space. The first belongs to Vincent van Gogh on the day he shot himself in Auverssur-Oise in July 1890. The second to Theo van Gogh (Vincent's brother's great grandson) on the day he was assassinated in Amsterdam in November 2004. The third to Mohammed Bouyeri, Theo's murderer, outraged by the filmmaker's collaboration with controversial politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali on a 10-minute experimental short critiquing Muslim subjugation and abuse of women. The aggregate: a restless, haunting exploration of art's purpose, religion's increasingly dominant role as engine of politics and passion, the complexities of foreignness and assimilation, and the limits of tolerance.
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Schrijver
Olsen, Lance
Titel
Head in Flames
Uitgever
Widow and Orphan House
Jaar
2017
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
200
Gewicht
259 gr
EAN
9780998403748
Afmetingen
216 x 140 x 12 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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