Sharon Kivland
Emptiness & Silence.
A Supplement to Reading Nana, 2017
Emile Zola's novel Nana is re-read and re-written, according to emptiness and silence. There are failed voices, empty glasses and drawing-rooms, and noiseless departures. There is silent laughter. Men and women are dumbfounded. There is a deathly hush and the plains of the new Paris are icy and empty.
In an attempt to exhaust her novel reading, or reading of the novel, Sharon Kivland’s book READING NANA, published by MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE in 2017, includes all her re-reading and digestion of Nana. Her reading is always based on a subject—from clothing and furniture, money and dirt, cats and animal allusions, to anti-Semitism and death. Annette Gilbert writes in A Work’s Coming into Being: Challenges in the Formation of Literary Works Since the 1950s: ‘The implementation of her digest-ideas can thus be understood as an expedition into the unknown that demands innumerable further detailed aesthetic decisions’.
Yet she cannot stop reading Nana...
In an attempt to exhaust her novel reading, or reading of the novel, Sharon Kivland’s book READING NANA, published by MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE in 2017, includes all her re-reading and digestion of Nana. Her reading is always based on a subject—from clothing and furniture, money and dirt, cats and animal allusions, to anti-Semitism and death. Annette Gilbert writes in A Work’s Coming into Being: Challenges in the Formation of Literary Works Since the 1950s: ‘The implementation of her digest-ideas can thus be understood as an expedition into the unknown that demands innumerable further detailed aesthetic decisions’.
Yet she cannot stop reading Nana...
12 pages
140 mm x 205 mm
Softbback, sewn
ISBN 978-1-910055-32-8
£4.00
or gratis with the purchase of Reading Nana. An experimental novel
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140 mm x 205 mm
Softbback, sewn
ISBN 978-1-910055-32-8
£4.00
or gratis with the purchase of Reading Nana. An experimental novel
Next Book ->