Kay Dick: Sie. Szenen des Unbehagens - Perlentaucher Aus dem Englischen von Kathrin Razum. . Mit einem Nachwort von Eva Menasse. Die Wiederentdeckung eines beunruhigenden Meisterwerks: Dieser lange verschollene Roman von 1977 erzählt...

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In #EvaMenasse|s Buch "Alles und nichts sagen" (2023) findet sich ein Hinweis zu einem Stück vergessener #Literatur: #KayDick mit "Sie. Szenen des Unbehagens" (1977). Es schildert die Bedrohung von Kunst durch eine geheimnisvolle Gruppe
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In #EvaMenasse|s Buch "Alles und nichts sagen" (2023) findet sich ein Hinweis zu einem interessanten Stück vergessener #Literatur: #KayDick mit "Sie. Szenen des Unbehagens" (1977). Es schildert die Bedrohung von Kunst und Künstlern durch eine geheimnisvolle Gruppe […]

Picture of the book cover showing the title in very tall skinny stretched out purple letters looming over the orange silhouettes of three small people in a very intimidating way

My #RecentRead*
#They by #KayDick

*books I’ve really liked/loved

Perhaps in the midst of writing, it wanted to be a different type of book. Have you read "They: A Sequence of Unease" by #KayDick ?

A bonus photo and song today. I was reading “They” by Kay Dick. A book that depicts a sinister society governed by pervasive, malign forces. Sound familiar?
Art as an act of resistance.
#artofnoise a time to Fear
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…censorious impulses…and soft bigotry are hardly the exclusive property of the right…The thing about dystopia is you can bring it to a knife-fight, but you better not drop it, otherwise you might find yourself at the wrong end of the blade.
- Carmen Maria Machado

#They
#KayDick

"I had refused the offer of a set. Equally perverse, I tended my small garden.... I grew flowers & fruit. Periodically I left both flowers & fruit near my gate at night, gifts to those brave enough to accept them. Occasionally I put out a book but none dared take it." #They #KayDick #TheFineValley

"'The single is a menace to them,' Berg said. 'They fear solitary living, therefore envy it.'
'But they hardly speak to each other.'
'They have reduced speech to a minimum, to such an extent that they can barely articulate their words.'"
#They #KayDick