Lote (Twenty in 2020; Black Writers, British Voices)
黒人のモダニズムの痕跡をたどる、華やかで批評的なデビュー長編。
作品情報
Mathilda は、黒人スコットランド人詩人 Hermia Druitt ら忘れられた人物の痕跡を追う。美と装飾、歴史からの抹消をめぐる探索を、饒舌でデカダントな語りとして描く。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd
- 発売日
- 2020-03-26
- ページ数
- 460ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 12.7 x 3.18 x 19.69 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781913090111
- ISBN-10
- 1913090116
- 価格
- 851 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Horror/Occult
WINNER of The Republic of Consciousness Prize 2021. Lush and frothy, incisive and witty, Shola von Reinhold’s decadent queer literary debut immerses readers in the pursuit of aesthetics and beauty, while interrogating the removal and obscurement of Black figures from history. Solitary Mathilda has long been enamored with the ‘Bright Young Things’ of the 20s, and throughout her life, her attempts at reinvention have mirrored their extravagance and artfulness. After discovering a photograph of the forgotten Black modernist poet Hermia Druitt, who ran in the same circles as the Bright Young Things that she adores, Mathilda becomes transfixed and resolves to learn as much as she can about the mysterious figure. Her search brings her to a peculiar artists’ residency in Dun, a small European town Hermia was known to have lived in during the 30s. The artists’ residency throws her deeper into a lattice of secrets and secret societies that takes hold of her aesthetic imagination, but will she be able to break the thrall of her Transfixions? From champagne theft and Black Modernisms , to art sabotage, alchemy and lotus-eating proto-luxury communist cults, Mathilda’s journey through modes of aesthetic expression guides her to truth and the convoluted ways it is made and obscured.
Shola von Reinhold is a writer and artist. Her debut novel, LOTE, won the James Tait Black Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2021.
レビュー
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Great read
Bought as a present. Daughter loved it.
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Loved this book
Wow this book is brilliant! It really drew me into its world as fiction but at the same time (as an art historian) it really made me think about the real historical period its protagonist was researching, it reminded me at points of AS Byatt, Ronald Firbank, and Iain Banks all chopped up into something totally new - one of the best books I read last year, I’ve bought it for quite a few people who all enjoyed it too.
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Incredible
One of the best books I read this year. Schola’s work is unique and the idea of resistance through luxury is beautiful. I am so glad I got to experience this story at their hands!