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This is Not an Artifact: on Germán Sierra’s The Artifact
“This is not real life. This is not fiction. This is not a novel. This is not an exit.[…] This is not a dream. This is not a pipe. This is not a love song.” (19)
It is always way easier to say what things aren’t than call them what they are – as negative theologians, politicians, and fictioneers know all too well. Germán Sierra’s The Artifact (Inside the Castle, 2018) opens on a series of such negative definitions and its bulk of 120 pages then goes on to offer such a dizzyingly vast array of textual material as to render any easy positive description or definition of what it is screamingly impossible. Continue reading
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- EQUUS PRESS was established in 2011 between Paris, London & Prague with the objective of publishing new writing that is innovative & conscious of being doubly marginalised: outside the literary establishment defined by the Anglo-American publishing industry, & outside the confines of nationalism, pursuing a broadly cosmopolitan “agenda.” // EQUUS believes that such a doubly marginalised position allows for a writing both idiosyncratic & authoritative in its distance from which it can take a stand, make a change, & matter; an ability increasingly rare in titles conforming to the dictates of the book market & tastes of mass readership. // EQUUS considers its mission to offer the possibility of publication to writers & writing that matters, focusing mainly, though not exclusively, on Anglophone writing written outside of its native emplacement.
