It is a single-paragraph novel, written in raging, recursive prose, about the small world of English poetry. 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. Dead Souls is Sam Rivieres Thomas Bernhard phase.

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. 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. Riviere satirizes those who appear anti-establishment but join in with the establishment when it suits them, and condemn outsiders with cruelty concealed behind a veneer of self-righteousness. Buy DEAD SOULS by Sam Riviere At Online Book Store In India Bookstech.in Get Cash On Delivery Buy & Read Bestseller Books From Bookstech Book Store. For readers of Roberto Bolaño's Savage Detectives and Muriel Spark's Loitering with Intent, this 'sublime' and 'delightfully unhinged' metaphysical mystery disguised as a picaresque romp follows one poet's spectacular fall from grace to ask a vital question: Is everyone a plagiarist? (Nicolette Polek, author of Imaginary Museums).Ī scandal has shaken the literary world.

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