ISBN: 0571370861
Godina izdanja: 2022
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Kay Dick - They
Faber and Faber, London, 2022
107 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

They is a dream, a surreal nightmare which sends a shock right to the heart of our cultural complacency.

As you read it you should remember that the men and women who live and die in it might easily be you. (They could be snatched out of your hand, quite suddenly, and pulped. No reason would be given, except pure destructive savagery.)

Those who struggle in its pages to maintain their reason, their sanity, their capacity to love and hope, are not so far removed (nor are the forces that menace them) from our own and, as we fondly imagine, unruffled lives.

As bureaucracy and governmental control proliferate, Kay Dick pleads for the individual and intellectual freedoms which are so rapidly being eroded. Her book is both a poignant celebration of these values and an anguished caveat.

As heard on BBC Radio 4`s Front Row: the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish Britain, THEY are coming closer.

`A creepily prescient tale ... Insidiously horrifying!` Margaret Atwood
`A masterpiece of creeping dread.` Emily St. John Mandel

This is Britain: but not as we know it.
THEY begin with a dead dog, shadowy footsteps, confiscated books. Soon the National Gallery is purged; eerie towers survey the coast; mobs stalk the countryside destroying artworks - and those who resist.
THEY capture dissidents - writers, painters, musicians, even the unmarried and childless - in military sweeps, `curing` these subversives of individual identity.
Survivors gather together as cultural refugees, preserving their crafts, creating, loving and remembering. But THEY make it easier to forget ...

Lost for half a century, newly introduced by Carmen Maria Machado, Kay Dick`s They (1977) is a rediscovered dystopian masterpiece of art under attack: a cry from the soul against censorship, a radical celebration of non-conformity - and a warning.

`Delicious and sexy and downright chilling ... Read it!` Rumaan Alam
`Crystalline ... The signature of an enchantress.` Edna O`Brien
`I`m pretty wild about this paranoid, terrifying 1977 masterpiece.` Lauren Groff
`Deft, dread filled, hypnotic and hopeful. Completely got under my skin.` Kiran Millwood Hargrave
`Lush, hypnotic, compulsive ... A reminder of where groupthink leads.` Eimear McBride
`A masterwork of English pastoral horror: eerie and bewitching.` Claire-Louise Bennett
`A short shocker: creepy, disturbing, distressing and highly enjoyable.` Andrew Hunter Murray
`Prophetic, chilling and a reminder from the past that we have everything to fight for in the future.` Salena Godden


Fiction, Horror, 0571370861