Thru

Author: Brooke-Rose, Christine
Title: Thru
Publication: London: H. Hamilton, 1975
Edition: First Edition

Description: Hardcover. Octavo in blue cloth with silver stamping; blue and white DJ; 164 pages: illustrations, facsimiles; 21 cm. Near fine copy with teensy bit of edgewear to jacket; as new copy with clean, bright tight pages.

A wild ride through the byways and crooked streets of language as it passes through humans and their contradictions, stories and fragments, with an experimental layout and far-ranging allusions. "Thru could be described as a mirror of modern consciousness, viewed, necessarily, as a series of texts: society is a text, the human body is a text. Thru is also about the production of texts, this text, and language itself, without which there would be no politics, no marriage and families, no psycho-analysis, no universities, no revolution, no human relationships. This perhaps is Christine Brooke-Roses's most ambitious book. It is her intention to make demands on us, even to baffle us, and she obviously delights in doing so. We in turn are delighted by that intelligence, informed, sparking, as playful as it is incisive, unique." --Jacket copy.

Jacket design by Peter Bate.

//A novel Art d'écrire Romans, nouvelles, etc, Artists' books Great Britain, Authorship, Authorship Fiction, Experimental fiction, English, Experimental fiction, English Specimens, Fiction, Fiction in English, Littérature concrète Spécimens, Specimens, Visual literature, Visual literature Specimens, Additional Physical Form Entry:, Online version:, Thru., Brooke-Rose, Christine, 1923-, 568738035.

Seller ID: 103458

Subject: English, Fiction