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"Mays's passion for art electrifies fascinating sketches of Beuys." -Quill and Quire

A brooding fugitive hides out in a crumbling hotel that was once filled with celebrities enjoying the successes of postwar America. He is a racist with a criminal past, an anti-hero who reflects on the ruins of the South and simultaneously on the life of a German performance artist called "Jupp". The fictional Jupp is a thinly-veiled cipher for the late real-life German artist, Joseph Beuys, and the photos in the novel are photos of the performances by the controversial Beuys. At once echoing the moody worlds of W. G. Sebald and incorporating outrageous elements of pulp fiction, this novel of dark romanticism is not for optimists seeking redemption, but for those willing to take a look into a searing heart of darkness.

The Occidental Hotel

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Paperback / softback by John Mays , Anne Collins

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"Mays's passion for art electrifies fascinating sketches of Beuys." -Quill and QuireA brooding fugitive hides out in a crumbling hotel... Read more

    Publisher: Guernica Editions,Canada
    Publication Date: 01/09/2020
    ISBN13: 9781771835145, 978-1771835145
    ISBN10: 1771835141

    Number of Pages: 250

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    "Mays's passion for art electrifies fascinating sketches of Beuys." -Quill and Quire

    A brooding fugitive hides out in a crumbling hotel that was once filled with celebrities enjoying the successes of postwar America. He is a racist with a criminal past, an anti-hero who reflects on the ruins of the South and simultaneously on the life of a German performance artist called "Jupp". The fictional Jupp is a thinly-veiled cipher for the late real-life German artist, Joseph Beuys, and the photos in the novel are photos of the performances by the controversial Beuys. At once echoing the moody worlds of W. G. Sebald and incorporating outrageous elements of pulp fiction, this novel of dark romanticism is not for optimists seeking redemption, but for those willing to take a look into a searing heart of darkness.

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