Subscript (Poetry Pleiade) - Softcover

Brooke-Rose, Christine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857544412 ISBN 13: 9781857544411

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

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 unique and 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 present day.

About this title

About the Author:

Christine Brooke-Rose was born in Geneva and educated at Somerville College, Oxford and University College, London. She taught at the University of Paris, Vincennes, from 1968 to 1988 and lived for many years in the south of France. Carcanet publish her novels Amalgamemnon, Xorandor, Verbivore and Textermination and her earlier novels Out, Such, Between and Thru in the Brooke-Rose Omnibus. Also available is her autobiographical work, Remake (1996). She died on 21 March 2012.

Synopsis:

This novel encompasses concerns about genetics, individuality and evolution. The author blends her narratorless technique with a drastic extension of an ancient convention, that of lending words to creatures that have none, indeed have no consciousness, to move steadily through evolution.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1857544412
• ISBN 13: 9781857544411
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220