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More info Northampton, UK. This ancient city was once the capital of the Saxon kings, the last battle in the war of the Scarlet and White Roses took place near it, and here is a real war between life and death, between time and people. And against the backdrop of this unequal battle unfolds the story of the Vernull family, the mad and saints with whom heaven once spoke. One of the most grandiose, complex and long novels in English literature of recent years is Jerusalem by Alan Moore. It is 10 author’s sheets longer than David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Joke. But it’s not just size. Alan Moore wrote Jerusalem for 10 years, and this novel resembles a real kaleidoscope of literary forms: here each new chapter is sustained in its own style, from traditional realism to a poem and a chapter in the spirit of Wake after Finnegans ”by James Joyce. Ancient demons and angels with golden blood can be found on these pages. Wanderers, prostitutes and ghosts walk side by side with Oliver Cromwell, Samuel Beckett, Lucia Joyce, James Joyce’s daughter, Buffalo Bill and many other real and fictional characters. Here, the fate of people can be determined by a game of billiards, other dimensions are hidden under the usual layer of reality, and the history of our world takes on a visible embodiment. At the same time, “Jerusalem” is also a real encyclopedia of genres: a poignant family saga and drama are intertwined in it with one of the most original and unique images of the afterlife, a description of everyday life — with a historical novel, detective story and science fiction, which tells about a radically new perception time and space. «Jerusalem» is perhaps the most unusual and unlike anything book published in recent years, which has no analogues in the English-language literature. Abstract Northampton, UK. This ancient city was once the capital of the Saxon kings, the last battle in the War of the Scarlet and White Rose took place near it, and here is a real battle between life and death, between time and people. And against the backdrop of this unequal battle unfolds the story of the Vernal family, madmen and saints with whom heaven once spoke. Ancient demons and angels with golden blood can be found on these pages. Wanderers, prostitutes and ghosts walk side by side with Oliver Cromwell, Samuel Beckett, Lucia Joyce, James Joyce’s daughter, Buffalo Bill and many other real and fictional characters. Here, the fate of people can be determined by a game of billiards, time flows in a different way, under the usual layer of reality other dimensions are hidden, and the history of our world takes on a visible embodiment.
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