Stewart Home pre-reviews Manituana

[That old fellow traveller of ours, the novelist and cultural terrorist Stewart Home, blogged a few interesting things about Manituana, which we duly reproduce. He also reviewed Q some time ago. By clicking in the right column you can listen to Stewart declaiming his short story Cheap Night Out, live at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, August 28th, 1997 (mp3). The main character and narrating I is none other than Luther Blissett. ]

Manituana by Wu Ming Following on from Q (authored as Luther Blissett) and 54, comes a new novel - Manituana - by the Bologna fiction collective known as Wu Ming. Verso are publishing Shaun Whiteside’s English translation, the proof copies were circulated last month, and the book will be available in both the UK and the US shortly. Like the earlier tomes by the same authors, Manituana is a heavily researched historical novel that speaks as much about a future we have yet to make, as the past in which it is set. The main action takes place around the ‘American War of Independence’, with the focus on the alliance the Iroquois Indians made with the English.

18.08.09 · recensioni