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Seemingly the most conspicuous aspect of Ben Marcus' work, to date, is its expansion on one of the most primary concerns of the original Surrealist authors -- perhaps most typified by Benjamin Péret, husband of the acclaimed painter Remedios Varo -- this being a very deep interest in the psychological service and implication of symbols and the manners by which those symbols can be maneuvered and rejuxtaposed in order to provoke new ideas or new points of view -- in other words, the creation of, in a sense, conscious dreams.

While Marcus' writing plays similarly with the meanings of words by either stripping them of their intended meaning or juxtaposing them with other words in critical ways, it also abandons the 'experimental' nature of so m...more


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Average rating: 4.02 · 20,476 ratings · 1,097 reviews · 18 distinct works
The Flame Alphabet
2.95 of 5 stars 2.95 avg rating — 954 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
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The Age of Wire and String
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Notable American Women
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The Moors
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Conjunctions:26, Sticks and...
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The Flame Alphabet: A Novel
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“Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.”
Ben Marcus, Notable American Women

“How did one even fraternize with people who could not entertain vivid scenarios of self-mutilation? How was the sexual act even possible if one's partner could not entertain being crushed under a truck, just as a cathartic exercise? What important piece of her brain was missing that deprived her of such, well, deeply necessary acts of physical editing?”
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“Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.”
Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet

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