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9781771660525 English 177166052X Fiction. Translated from the French by Oana Avasilichioaei. From multidisciplinary artist Bertrand Laverdure comes UNIVERSAL BUREAU OF COPYRIGHTS, a bold, strange, and addictive story that envisions a world where free will doesn't exist, and an unnameable global corporation buys and sells the copyrights for all things that exist on the earth, including real and fictional characters. Part narrative-poetry, part sci-fi-dystopian fantasy, readers become acquainted with the main character, a man who deconstructs himself as he navigates the mystifying passages of the story. Having no control over his environment, time continuum, or body, he is a puppet on strings, an icon in a video game and, as he eventually discovers with the bowels of the UNIVERSAL BUREAU OF COPYRIGHTS, the object of countless copyrights. With touches of Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions and Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Universal Bureau of Copyrights packs a multitude of modern cultural references into an audacious exploration of identity and one's place in the world., From celebrated Quebecois author Bertrand Laverdure comes Universal Bureau of Copyrights , a bold, strange and addictive story that envisions a world where free will doesn't exist, and an enigmatic global corporation buys and sells the copyrights for all things on Earth, including real and fictional characters. Through this novel, which is part poetic narrative, part sci-fi-dystopian fantasy, readers become acquainted with the main character, a man who deconstructs himself as he navigates the mystifying passages of the story. Having no control over his environment, time continuum, or body, he is a puppet on strings, an icon in a video game and, as he eventually discovers within the bowels of the Universal Bureau of Copyrights, the object of countless copyrights. With touches of Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions and Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Universal Bureau of Copyrights packs a multitude of modern cultural references into an audacious exploration of identity and one's place in the world., From multidisciplinary artist Bertrand Laverdure comes Universal Bureau of Copyright, a story that's bold, strange, and wholly compelling in its vision of a world where free will doesn't exist and an unnameable global corporation sells and buys all the copyrights of things that exist on earth, including unreal and fictional characters. Laverdure is our tour guide to the "hole of the living." No one knows exactly why the hole exists or where the hole leads or ends. But once inside, everyone tries to keep busy, so as to avoid thinking about it. Part-narrative poetry, part-sci-fi dystopian fantasy, readers become acquainted with the main character, a man who deconstructs himself the further down the hole he falls. Having no control over his environment, time continuum, or body, he is a puppet on strings, an icon in a video game and, as he eventually discovers within the bowels of the Universal Bureau of Copyrights, the object of countless copyrights. With touches of Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions and Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Universal Bureau of Copyrights packs a multitude of modern cultural references - realistic and improbably objects; literary, art, and film references; floods and calamaties; rescues, repairs, bonus stages, levels, and reboots; labyrinthine doors, corridors, and rooms; "scenery, scenery, and more scenery" - into an audacious exploration of identity and one's place in the world.
9781771660525 English 177166052X Fiction. Translated from the French by Oana Avasilichioaei. From multidisciplinary artist Bertrand Laverdure comes UNIVERSAL BUREAU OF COPYRIGHTS, a bold, strange, and addictive story that envisions a world where free will doesn't exist, and an unnameable global corporation buys and sells the copyrights for all things that exist on the earth, including real and fictional characters. Part narrative-poetry, part sci-fi-dystopian fantasy, readers become acquainted with the main character, a man who deconstructs himself as he navigates the mystifying passages of the story. Having no control over his environment, time continuum, or body, he is a puppet on strings, an icon in a video game and, as he eventually discovers with the bowels of the UNIVERSAL BUREAU OF COPYRIGHTS, the object of countless copyrights. With touches of Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions and Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Universal Bureau of Copyrights packs a multitude of modern cultural references into an audacious exploration of identity and one's place in the world., From celebrated Quebecois author Bertrand Laverdure comes Universal Bureau of Copyrights , a bold, strange and addictive story that envisions a world where free will doesn't exist, and an enigmatic global corporation buys and sells the copyrights for all things on Earth, including real and fictional characters. Through this novel, which is part poetic narrative, part sci-fi-dystopian fantasy, readers become acquainted with the main character, a man who deconstructs himself as he navigates the mystifying passages of the story. Having no control over his environment, time continuum, or body, he is a puppet on strings, an icon in a video game and, as he eventually discovers within the bowels of the Universal Bureau of Copyrights, the object of countless copyrights. With touches of Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions and Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Universal Bureau of Copyrights packs a multitude of modern cultural references into an audacious exploration of identity and one's place in the world., From multidisciplinary artist Bertrand Laverdure comes Universal Bureau of Copyright, a story that's bold, strange, and wholly compelling in its vision of a world where free will doesn't exist and an unnameable global corporation sells and buys all the copyrights of things that exist on earth, including unreal and fictional characters. Laverdure is our tour guide to the "hole of the living." No one knows exactly why the hole exists or where the hole leads or ends. But once inside, everyone tries to keep busy, so as to avoid thinking about it. Part-narrative poetry, part-sci-fi dystopian fantasy, readers become acquainted with the main character, a man who deconstructs himself the further down the hole he falls. Having no control over his environment, time continuum, or body, he is a puppet on strings, an icon in a video game and, as he eventually discovers within the bowels of the Universal Bureau of Copyrights, the object of countless copyrights. With touches of Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions and Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Universal Bureau of Copyrights packs a multitude of modern cultural references - realistic and improbably objects; literary, art, and film references; floods and calamaties; rescues, repairs, bonus stages, levels, and reboots; labyrinthine doors, corridors, and rooms; "scenery, scenery, and more scenery" - into an audacious exploration of identity and one's place in the world.