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GET BACK |
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Get Back is not a novel. It's novel. There are words, that's all, more than enough.
You want entertainment
you want 'character
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development' you want 'plot' you want a story, well
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won't find them. You see the book is about unsaying words in order to
return to
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the silence we came from. Get back to childhood then further back to the preverbal preschizoid past. Paradise. Why ? Because children
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are simply preferable to adults, wholeness is simply preferable to splitting, silence is simply preferable to noise. This is a How To book,
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how to stop talking. What the Surrealists did with objects is done here to words: they are removed from their habitual contexts, so they
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first become ludicrous, then inapplicable, then, ashamed, they slink away. All this is harnessed to a psychological voyage: a return
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through childhood to infancy. Notice what a baby is ? Eyes. And eyes don't talk. Over and shout it all out, shit it all out - into silence. Get
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Back is CJBR's most original book, often infuriating, more often funny. Language is liquefied, filling a nappy. |
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