Research Catalog

Title

The fabricator's Tale / Katrina Palmer.

Author

Palmer, Katrina

Publication

London : Book Works, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dreibholz, Paulus M.
• McGhee, Daniel
• Book Works (Organization) publisher.

Description

195 pages; 18 cm

Summary

• Experimental writer and artist Katrina Palmer uses language as a material which she performs in private readings or in live, public performances. Her second publication from Book Works, The Fabricators Tale, is comprised of 24 tense and violent stories intertwined to form a narrative whole but twisted into a parody of a novel. Reminiscent of the extremist storytelling of William Burroughs and Kathy Acker as well as the Cinema of Transgression, Palmers nightmarish fantasies pack a visceral punch. Neatly contained in this compact novel-scaled publication, the short, abstract and disturbing vignettes expose the repressed tensions and malaise of contemporary life in a fantasy-space that upends male/ female power relations, the animate and inanimate, and the cracking points of human subjectivity. Based in London, Palmer is also the author of The Dark Object, and recently awarded the new but highly acclaimed UK Artangel Open Commission.
• Here, in a new work by the author of The Dark Object, a series of tense and violent short stories are intertwined to form a narrative whole – a collection, with a twisted narrative structure, that parodies the form of a novel. When the protagonist, the dysfunctional Reality Flickers, meets the psychotic Heart Beast (aka the fucker), death sex and sculpture collide in the stories that form The Fabricator’s Tale. Palmer’s misanthropic characters are embedded within their own obsession with objects, with exposure, voyeurism, and the sexualised abuse of power, and appear to exist in a highly dysfunctional world, that parodies, and replicates both the conditions of art, and its place in contemporary society. This meta-narrative is punctuation by short, abstract, and often disturbingly violent stories, featuring nameless characters that expose the repressed tension between the animate and inanimate, the sick malaise of contemporary life, and the cracking points of human subjectivity.--Publisher.

Uniform Title

Short stories. Selections

Alternative Title

Short stories.

Subject

• Palmer, Katrina
• Short stories > Women authors

Genre/Form

• short stories.
• Short stories
• Nouvelles.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781906012519 (pbk.)
• 1906012512 (pbk.)

LCCN

• ^^2014472284
• 40024773992

OCLC

• 884496116
• SCSB-11159436

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library