Excavating the themes of literary influence Alba reanimates modernism, spiked realism, magic realism, poetry, pop, drama, cookbooks, diaries, how-to-books, history texts and metafictional novels⏤20th and 21st centuries’ writing, the glittering array of experiment, the methods and madness of major and minor chords, techniques, reputations in a century of writing solitude.
‘The story’
His novel stolen by a celebrity author, Archie Lees, embarks on a twelve-month odyssey for literary justice inside the dark worlds of Anglo-American publishing⏤London, New York, Barcelona, Aigues-Mortes⏤with Lou Alba unleashing Archie Lees and a cast of post-Iliadian characters in twelve off-battlefield war-torn months of literary mania.
