The Remembered Part
ISBN-13: 9781948830546
Author(s): Rodrigo Fresan
Subjects: FBA, Fiction
Publisher: Open Letter
Publisher Imprint: Open Letter
Publication Date: 14-06-2022
Format: Paperback / softback
Availability: In stock
£18.99
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About the book
Highly anticipated conclusion to Fresan's 'Part' Trilogy, which includes the Best Translated Book Award winning The Invented Part. The protagonist-narrator of The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part returns to find an answer the question: how does a writer remember? In particular, how does a he - a writer who no longer writes but can't stop reading and rereading himself - remember. The Writer takes us hurtling through the refracted funhouse of his recursive and referential-maniac mind with a host of debut performances and redux appearances: the howling ghost of electricity and the defective Mr. Trip; the wuthering and heightened Penelope and her lost son; 2001: A Space Odyssey and Blade Runner; the absent Pertusato, Nicolasito and the omnipresent IKEA; the dead Colma, the deceased ZZYZX, the departed Nothing, and the immortal Sad Songs; the irrealist Vladimir Nabokov and the surrealist Karmas; Wish You Were Here playing on (im)mobil(izing) phones and Dracula being invited in; the disturbed Uncle Hey Walrus and parents who are models but not at all model parents; The Beatles and The Beatles; a nonexistent country of origin and a city in flames; an unforgettable night that wants nothing more than to be rewritten; and so many more accelerated particles and freewheeling fragments and interlinked cells searching for a storyline to give them some structure, some meaning. With mordant wit, capacious intelligence, and vertiginous prose, The Remembered Part closes Rodrigo Fresan's sprawling tryptic novel. A novel that has at its heart the three component parts of literary creation, the engines that drive the writing of fictional lives and the narration of real works of art: invention, dream, and memory. It is a masterpiece by one of contemporary literature's most daring and innovative writers.