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I Burn Paris by Bruno Jasienski (2017, Trade Paperback)
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- Condition
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 9788086264349
- Book Title
- I Burn Paris
- Item Length
- 7.7in
- Publisher
- Twisted Spoon Press
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Classics, General, Fantasy / Urban
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 14 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 299 Pages
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I Burn Paris has remained one of Poland's most uncomfortable masterstrokes of literature since its initial and controversial serialization by Henri Barbusse in 1928 in l'Humanit (for which Jasieoski was deported for disseminating subversive literature). It tells the story of a disgruntled factory worker who, finding himself on the streets, takes the opportunity to poison Paris's water supply. With the deaths piling up, we encounter Chinese communists, rabbis, disillusioned scientists, embittered Russian migr s, French communards and royalists, American millionaires and a host of others as the city sections off into ethnic enclaves and everyone plots their route of escape. At the heart of the cosmopolitan city is a deep-rooted xenophobia and hatred - the one thread that binds all these groups together. As Paris is brought to ruin, Jasienski issues a rallying cry to the downtrodden of the world, mixing strains of "The Internationale" with a broadcast of popular music. With its montage strategies reminiscent of early avant-garde cinema and fist-to-the-gut metaphors, I Burn Paris has lost none of its vitality and vigor. Ruthlessly dissecting various utopian fantasies, Jasienski is out to disorient, and he has a seemingly limitless ability to transform the Parisian landscape into the product of disease-addled minds. An exquisite example of literary Futurism and Catastrophism, the novel presents a filthy, degenerated world where factories and machines have replaced the human and economic relationships have turned just about everyone into a prostitute. Yet rather than clich and simplistic propaganda, there is an immediacy to the writing, and the modern metropolis is starkly depicted as only superficially cosmopolitan, as hostile and animalistic at its core. This English translation of I Burn Paris fills a major gap in the availability of works from the interwar Polish avant-garde, an artistic phenomenon receiving growing attention of late.
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Publisher
Twisted Spoon Press
ISBN-10
8086264343
ISBN-13
9788086264349
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237669393
Product Key Features
Book Title
I Burn Paris
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Classics, General, Fantasy / Urban
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
299 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.7in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
14 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pg7158.J35
Reviews
"It should be emphasized that I Burn Paris is not a programmatic novel. Yes, there's a message here, and an ideology on offer, but Jasienski's expressionistic instincts take over for wonderful long stretches..." -- M.A. Orthofer, The Complete Review, "Jasienski's apocalyptic vanguardism sees catastrophe as clearing the way for organisation and the plan. ... [His] dialectic of rotting dispersion and tailored compactness traces a fantasy space in which, too often, we still dwell." -- Mute Magazine, Jasie,,ski's I Burn Paris reveals a still largely forgotten moment: post-avant-garde and pre-Socialist Realist. Aesthetically, the moment was a fantastical one: quasi-Surrealist, hallucinogenic, and grotesque. 'e" Marci Shore, Times Literary Supplement, It should be emphasized that I Burn Paris is not a programmatic novel. Yes, there's a message here, and an ideology on offer, but Jasieoski's expressionistic instincts take over for wonderful long stretches... - M.A. Orthofer, The Complete Review, It should be emphasized that I Burn Paris is not a programmatic novel. Yes, there's a message here, and an ideology on offer, but Jasieoski's expressionistic instincts take over for wonderful long stretches... -- M.A. Orthofer, The Complete Review#It should be emphasized that I Burn Paris is not a programmatic novel. Yes, there's a message here, and an ideology on offer, but Jasieoski's expressionistic instincts take over for wonderful long stretches... -- M.A. Orthofer, The Complete Review, Jasieoski's apocalyptic vanguardism sees catastrophe as clearing the way for organisation and the plan. ... [His] dialectic of rotting dispersion and tailored compactness traces a fantasy space in which, too often, we still dwell. -- Mute Magazine#Jasieoski's apocalyptic vanguardism sees catastrophe as clearing the way for organisation and the plan. ... [His] dialectic of rotting dispersion and tailored compactness traces a fantasy space in which, too often, we still dwell. -- Mute Magazine, Jasieoski's I Burn Paris reveals a still largely forgotten moment: post-avant-garde and pre-Socialist Realist. Aesthetically, the moment was a fantastical one: quasi-Surrealist, hallucinogenic, and grotesque. -- Marci Shore, Times Literary Supplement#Jasieoski's I Burn Paris reveals a still largely forgotten moment: post-avant-garde and pre-Socialist Realist. Aesthetically, the moment was a fantastical one: quasi-Surrealist, hallucinogenic, and grotesque. -- Marci Shore, Times Literary Supplement, Jasie,,ski's apocalyptic vanguardism sees catastrophe as clearing the way for organisation and the plan. ... [His] dialectic of rotting dispersion and tailored compactness traces a fantasy space in which, too often, we still dwell. 'e" Mute Magazine, Jasieński's I Burn Paris reveals a still largely forgotten moment: post-avant-garde and pre-Socialist Realist. Aesthetically, the moment was a fantastical one: quasi-Surrealist, hallucinogenic, and grotesque. -- Marci Shore, Times Literary Supplement#Jasieński's I Burn Paris reveals a still largely forgotten moment: post-avant-garde and pre-Socialist Realist. Aesthetically, the moment was a fantastical one: quasi-Surrealist, hallucinogenic, and grotesque. -- Marci Shore, Times Literary Supplement, It should be emphasized that I Burn Paris is not a programmatic novel. Yes, there's a message here, and an ideology on offer, but Jasie,,ski's expressionistic instincts take over for wonderful long stretches... 'e" M.A. Orthofer, The Complete Review, Jasieoski's apocalyptic vanguardism sees catastrophe as clearing the way for organisation and the plan. ... [His] dialectic of rotting dispersion and tailored compactness traces a fantasy space in which, too often, we still dwell. - Mute Magazine, Jasieński's apocalyptic vanguardism sees catastrophe as clearing the way for organisation and the plan. ... [His] dialectic of rotting dispersion and tailored compactness traces a fantasy space in which, too often, we still dwell. -- Mute Magazine#Jasieński's apocalyptic vanguardism sees catastrophe as clearing the way for organisation and the plan. ... [His] dialectic of rotting dispersion and tailored compactness traces a fantasy space in which, too often, we still dwell. -- Mute Magazine, It should be emphasized that I Burn Paris is not a programmatic novel. Yes, there's a message here, and an ideology on offer, but Jasieński's expressionistic instincts take over for wonderful long stretches... -- M.A. Orthofer, The Complete Review#It should be emphasized that I Burn Paris is not a programmatic novel. Yes, there's a message here, and an ideology on offer, but Jasieński's expressionistic instincts take over for wonderful long stretches... -- M.A. Orthofer, The Complete Review, "In Soren Gauger and Marcin Piekoszewski's translation, Jasienski's description of a contagion infecting, paralyzing, and eviscerating a large metropolis is vivid, and now feels darkly prophetic." -- Pasha Malla, The New Yorker, Jasieoski's I Burn Paris reveals a still largely forgotten moment: post-avant-garde and pre-Socialist Realist. Aesthetically, the moment was a fantastical one: quasi-Surrealist, hallucinogenic, and grotesque. - Marci Shore, Times Literary Supplement, "Jasienski's I Burn Paris reveals a still largely forgotten moment: post-avant-garde and pre-Socialist Realist. Aesthetically, the moment was a fantastical one: quasi-Surrealist, hallucinogenic, and grotesque." -- Marci Shore, Times Literary Supplement
Illustrated by
Opri¿, Cristian
Copyright Date
1929
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
891.8537
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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