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    The Eyelid
    The Eyelid
    The Eyelid
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    The Eyelid

    By S. D. Chrostowska

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    • Fits in with the modern dystopian genre that is so popular these days.

    • Author is friends with Kate Zambreno, and has numerous literary connections and blurbs for her previous work.

    • For readers of: Tom McCarthy, Robert Walser, W. G. Sebald, Kathryn Davis, Jesse Ball.

    • Compares to: Surrealists: André Breton (Nadja), Louis Aragon (Paris Peasant), Chris Marker’s short film La Jetée (1962), Ursula Le Guin, Charles Baudelaire, E.A. Poe, Kobo Abe, Robert Walser, Adalbert Stifter’s stories, W.G. Sebald, Bruno Schulz, J.L. Borges, Franz Kafka, Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine, William Morris, News from Nowhere, Margaret Atwood (Handmaid’s Tale) Marcel Schwob (Book of Monelle, Imaginary Lives), Tom McCarthy, Ben Marcus, the films of Jim Jarmusch and Guy Maddin, Walter Benjamin, and Sigmund Freud.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCoach House Books
    Release dateApr 14, 2020
    ISBN9781770566293
    The Eyelid
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    S. D. Chrostowska

    S. D. Chrostowska is Professor of Humanities and Social & Political Thought at York University, Toronto. She is the author of Literature on Trial: The Emergence of Critical Discourse in Germany, Poland, and Russia, 1700-1800 (2012); Permission: A Novel (2013); and Matches: A Light Book (2015, 2nd enlarged ed. 2019), and co-editor of Political Uses of Utopia: New Marxist, Anarchist, and Radical Democratic Perspectives (2017). She currently lives in Toronto. 

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