Still Life with Colostomy: (Book Two) Yes, you - Softcover

Weber, David Ollier

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1733847901 ISBN 13: 9781733847902

Publisher: Kila Springs Press, 2020

Synopsis

One morning in the shower a thought takes shape.... What if you recast everything in second person? Let the generic “you” morph into the specific, personal “you?” That would suggest, paradoxically, more of the universality you’re aiming for and you think is justified… even though what you’re recounting is undeniably individual, autobiographical. It would provide a certain remove from your own experience. A sliver of objectivity. In the “I” convention the author is other. The reader remains separate, outside, passively regaled by someone apart, relating their idiosyncratic thoughts and experiences (the unisex“their”). In the “you” construction (it’s too uncommon in literature to be styled a convention), reader and author are fused. The former might never have done anything remotely like what the latter is ascribing to them (that’s the unisex third person plural again) although almost surely they have done something at least recognizably similar... might never have felt at all the same way, emotionally, philosophically, politically... but that "you"—knowing, familiar, maybe accusatory—sucks the reader inside the author' s skin....

Edition details

• Publisher: Kila Springs Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1733847901
• ISBN 13: 9781733847902
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 793