I'll be / Claudio Gaudio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaudio, Claudio, author.

Series:

Essential prose series ; 155.

Essential prose series ; 155

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian fiction--21st century.

Canadian fiction.

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

I will be

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Chicago ; Buffalo ; Lancaster (U.K.) : Guernica Editions, 2023.

Summary:

"At the heart of I'll Be resides a highly unreliable narrator. As he fumbles through his days, he breaks boundaries that are larger than the seemingly insignificant tasks at hand: the concept of space is uncertain, language is broken, history is rewritten, identity itself remains a question. The futility of language is a theme that surfaces continually. In a commentary on the nature of political systems, for example, the narrator points out its inadequacy in facilitating truthful communication: "To be fair, this country is safe, no one I know has fallen from a sniper's rifle, and not since 1970 have tanks roamed the streets. But that was in another province, another language, so it may not have happened." Between sentences strife with comma splices, existentialist questions, and other deconstructionist strategies, the novel is peppered with poetic metaphor and laugh-out-loud humor that is sometimes dark, and always searching. By working to unravel every strand of our understanding of the external world, the novel, in turn, reveals the frailty of our thought process, inner constitution, and essentially our humanity."-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version: Gaudio, Claudio. I'll be.

ISBN:

9781771833028

1771833025

OCLC:

1346995353