About the Book
“It was a story I felt I had to tell but there were so many ways to tell it. It didn’t seem to matter in which order I placed the words the meaning never became any clearer.”
With A Story James Merrick pushes at the very limits of the sentence. From an original stream of consciousness text of less than seven hundred words Merrick folds phrases and words in on themselves to create a mesmerising experimental work. Behind the apparently random nature of the piece lies the guiding hand of an artist. Each sentence is structurally sound yet through the application of process Merrick allows the words to find new and unexpected meanings. A Story with its repetitious and playfully elliptical composition is a hypnotic reading experience, a joyfully poetic attempt to explore and exploit the rules of language.
With A Story James Merrick pushes at the very limits of the sentence. From an original stream of consciousness text of less than seven hundred words Merrick folds phrases and words in on themselves to create a mesmerising experimental work. Behind the apparently random nature of the piece lies the guiding hand of an artist. Each sentence is structurally sound yet through the application of process Merrick allows the words to find new and unexpected meanings. A Story with its repetitious and playfully elliptical composition is a hypnotic reading experience, a joyfully poetic attempt to explore and exploit the rules of language.
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Features & Details
- Primary Category: Literature & Fiction
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Project Option: 5×8 in, 13×20 cm
# of Pages: 80 - Publish Date: Apr 08, 2011
- Language English
- Keywords James Merrick, experimental fiction, art, literature, cut-ups
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About the Creator
James Merrick is an experimental writer who blurs the boundaries between writing and art. He has written a number of books including two volumes of short experimental texts (A Story & Dead End Novel), a two volume study on the narrative of dream (Somnia), and a book of short essays on art, culture and technology (With One Eye on the Road). Some of James' texts have been presented as visual art, such as the collage novel Paving Stones, the projection Octavio Paz, Single Words, Left Aligned, 1957-1987, and A Story which Merrick has transformed into a sound piece.