Synopsis
In this supplement to Jonathan Lethem’s novel A Gambler’s Anatomy, the renowned novelist engages in a concerted transatlantic dialogue with cult theorist Laurence A. Rickels, exploring the vicissitudes of popular culture and the profound influence of Philip K. Dick on their respective lines of flight. Foregrounding the introjections between California and Germany, they address a range of ideas, subjects and figures, from B-movies, science fiction, Wile E. Coyote and the Devil to trauma theory, Freud, Hitchcock and German Expressionism. Animating their zone of interrogation is the “blot”—an algorithm of innuendo, an uncanny defamiliarization of reality and “truth” wherein the trajectories of meaning, desire and perception fold into themselves like an origami in flames.
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"A return to form, absurd and digressive in a way that makes clear Lethem’s debt to Thomas Pynchon" (Alex Preston Observer, 2017 Books of the Year)
"Lethem can turn a sentence like few others" (Daniel Swift The Spectator)
"Lethem is a renowned stylist who turns out funny, exuberant, surprising sentences, and who has a deep love of genre fiction" (Paul Laity Guardian)
"Lethem’s phrasemaking is as vivid and funny as ever" (Daily Telegraph)
"The Blot does not disappoint. It sets a high bar for 2017’s fiction... There are moments of genuine, inexplicable tenderness as well as the sarcasm, venality and schadenfreude that swirl around the book... It also shows... that the genre best equipped to speak truthfully about the world we are in is not a flat-footed and sententious realism, but un-realism." (Stuart Kelly Scotland on Sunday)
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A surreal and brilliant novel, set in a Pynchonesque California
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