Christian Bok

Eunoia (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Brilliant . . . beautiful and strange.' Today Programme

'Impressive.' Sunday Telegraph

'A book that is easy, and pleasurable, to read. Eunoia is characterised not by obvious sweat and strain, but by playfulness, fluidity and self-conscious wit.' Irish Times

Eunoia, which means 'beautiful thinking', is the shortest English word to contain all five vowels. This book also contains them all, except that each one appears by itself in its own chapter. A unique personality for each vowel soon emerges: A is courtly, E is elegiac, I is lyrical, O is jocular, U is obscene. A triumphant feat, seven years in the making, Eunoia is as playful as it is awe-inspiring.

'No mere Christmas-stocking filler for Countdown fans. Rather, it's an ingenious little novel . . . playful and irreverent . . . charming.' Metro

'Amazing . . . impressive . . . It's beautiful, it's funny and it's moving.' Globe and Mail

'Linguistically daring and delightfully inventive.' Scotland on Sunday

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847674005
• Artikelnr.: 37934054

Autorenporträt

Christian Bök is the author of Crystallography (Coach House Press, 1994), a pataphysical encyclopaedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award for Best Poetic Debut. Bök has created artificial languages for two television shows: Gene Roddenberry's Earth Final Conflict and Peter Benchley's Amazon. Bök has also earned many accolades for his virtuoso performances of sound poetry (particularly the Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters). His conceptual artworks (which include books built out of Rubik cubes and Lego bricks) have appeared at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City as part of the exhibit Poetry Plastique. He lives in Toronto.