Early Levy : beautiful mutants and swallowing geography
Title:
Early Levy : beautiful mutants and swallowing geography
Author:
Levy, Deborah.
Elkin, Lauren.
ISBN:
9780241968338
Publication Information:
London : Penguin Books, 2014.
Physical Description:
xii, 188 p. ; 20 cm
General Note:
"Beautiful mutants first published by Jonathan Cape 1989; Swallowing geography first published by Jonathan Cape 1993"--Title page verso.
Abstract:
Back in print at last, two pioneering early works from Deborah Levy which have inspired a cult following, launching the career of this essential writer: Beautiful Mutants Lapinski, a manipulative and magical Russian exile, summons forth a number of highly contemporary urban pilgrims. Through them, Levy explores broken dreams and self-destructive desires in a shimmering, dislocated allegory of its times. Swallowing Geography Like her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, travelling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. From J.K.'s irreverent, ironic perspective, Levy charts a new, dizzying, end-of-the-century world of shifting boundaries and displaced peoples. Early Levy shows a writer utterly unafraid to take risks, in both imagination and subject matter, and to chart the world as she sees it.
Beautiful mutants -- Swallowing geography.
Subject:
| Women authors -- Fiction. |
| Road fiction. |
| Psychological fiction. |
Summary:
Back in print at last, two pioneering early works from Deborah Levy which have inspired a cult following, launching the career of this essential writer: Beautiful Mutants Lapinski, a manipulative and magical Russian exile, summons forth a number of highly contemporary urban pilgrims. Through them, Levy explores broken dreams and self-destructive desires in a shimmering, dislocated allegory of its times. Swallowing Geography Like her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, travelling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. From J.K.'s irreverent, ironic perspective, Levy charts a new, dizzying, end-of-the-century world of shifting boundaries and displaced peoples. Early Levy shows a writer utterly unafraid to take risks, in both imagination and subject matter, and to chart the world as she sees it.
Beautiful mutants -- Swallowing geography.