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Item Details
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IMPROMPTU IN MORIBUNDIA
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| By: |
Patrick Hamilton |
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Paperback |
| List price:
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£12.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571283632 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571283637 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
17 November, 2011 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| Pages: |
194 |
| Description: |
A satirical fable about one (nameless) man's trespass (through a fantastical machine called the Asteradio) into a parallel universe on a far-off planet where the miserably dull affairs of England are mirrored and transformed into an apparent idyll of bourgeois English imagination. |
| Synopsis: |
A stunning anomaly within the literary oeuvre of Patrick Hamilton, "Impromptu in Moribundia" (first published in 1939) is the most explicit production of his interest in a Marxist analysis of society. It is a satirical fable about one (nameless) man's trespass (through a fantastical machine called the 'Asteradio') into a parallel universe on a far-off planet where the 'miserably dull affairs of England' are mirrored and transformed into an apparent idyll of bourgeois English imagination. "Moribundia" - in the words of Peter Widdowson, editor and annotator of this edition - is the 'physical enactment of the stereotypes and myths of English middleclass culture and consciousness'. Yet the narrator comes to discover that he has stumbled among a people characterized by 'cupidity, ignorance, complacence, meanness, ugliness, short-sightedness, cowardice, credulity, hysteria and, when the occasion called for it ...cruelty and blood-thirstiness'. Faber Finds is devoted to restoring to readers a wealth of lost or neglected classics and authors of distinction. The range embraces fiction, non-fiction, the arts and children's books.For a full list of available titles visit our associated website. To join the dialogue with fellow book-lovers please see our blog. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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