Ben is struggling to find his way in postmodern society; lost in a blizzard of information, his very identity is fading. As he struggles to find his way, THE PLAGIARIST – a mysterious, soluble character, half-real, half-imaginary, ever constant but never the same – acts as a guide who shows Ben to the edge of the precipice. But can he be trusted?
This curious anti-novel may have all the answers...
A riot of experimentation, THE PLAGIARIST is an example of contemporary theory in practice, melding Bloom’s theories on influence to a series of unreliable or schizophrenic narrators against a backdrop created by Frederic Jameson. With a narrative fabricated from the effluvia of the now, which continues the work started by Burroughs and developed by contemporaries like Kenji Siratori, this book demonstrates how postmodern society can cause the individual to lose themselves and the plot.
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