Dead souls : a novel /
A scandal has shaken the literary world. As the unnamed narrator of Dead Souls discovers at a cultural festival in central London, the offender is Solomon Wiese, a poet accused of plagiarism. Later that same evening, at a bar near Waterloo Bridge, our narrator encounters the poet in person, and list...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Catapult,
[2021].
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| Summary: | A scandal has shaken the literary world. As the unnamed narrator of Dead Souls discovers at a cultural festival in central London, the offender is Solomon Wiese, a poet accused of plagiarism. Later that same evening, at a bar near Waterloo Bridge, our narrator encounters the poet in person, and listens to the story of Wiese's rise and fall, a story that takes the entire night and the remainder of the novel to tell. Wiese reveals his unconventional views on poetry, childhood encounters with "nothingness," a conspiracy involving the manipulation of documents in the public domain, an identity crisis, a retreat to the country, a meeting with an ex-serviceman with an unexpected offer, the death of an old poet, a love affair with a woman carrying a signpost, an entanglement with a secretive poetry cult and plans for a triumphant return to the capital, through the theft of poems, illegal war profits and faked social media accounts, plans in which our narrator discovers he is obscurely implicated. |
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| Physical Description: | 291 pages ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1646220285 9781646220281 |