{"product_id":"h-paperback","title":"H - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhilippe Sollers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eVeronika Stankovianska\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eDavid Vichnar\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilippe Sollers' groundbreaking 1973 novel, H, was inspired by the May 1968 Paris student\/worker uprising, and, in its own right, performs a revolt against much that's been (and still is) taken for granted in the belles lettres.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescribed as \"a music that is inscribed in language, becoming the object of its own reasoning\" (Julia Kristeva) and as an \"unpunctuated wall of words, an extremely active [...] mass of language\" (David Hayman), H does away with plot, character and setting-and, on the typographical level, with punctuation, capitalisation, or paragraph breaks-in order to attempt what Sollers himself called \"an external polylogue.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe text performs an infinite fragmentation of subjectivity into a plethora of ventriloquized voices where \"words turn round and come back, producing a material fullness of pleasures\" and \"everything is organized into a splendid series of irrelevancies\" (Roland Barthes). It is this fulness of H, this \"suffocation\" it produces, that might be, with Barthes, termed its \"beauty.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccommodating a vast range of tonalities, attitudes, modes, and ideologies, H makes a case in point of how a literary work should function according to Sollers: \"A work exists by itself only potentially, and its actualization (or production) depends on its readings and on the moments at which these readings actively take place.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eH (translated by Veronika Stankovianska \u0026amp; David Vichnar) will become the first English-language translation of this influential experimental text. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 172\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 6.8 x 4.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 26, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42738177835071,"sku":"9780993195501","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/540af2aa5e46c963f8c0954189c31ffa.webp?v=1765152409","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/h-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}