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ISBN-10: 184935393X
ISBN-13: 9781849353939
Publisher: AK Press
Publish Date: 09/15/2020
Dimensions: 6.30" L, 4.40" W, 0.50" H

Disorder: A Fable

Translator: Jennifer Pap

Paperback

Price: $12.00

Overview

In this brilliant and hilarious political novella, Leslie Kaplan imagines a series of unconnected crimes occurring throughout France. In each, a subordinate kills someone in a superior position over them–typically with an object used in their work, be it wiring in an auto shop, a huge sack of coffee, or a blackboard eraser. While these acts (no explanation is ever given by the criminals) clearly have a class-related character, the media and public figures are loathe to admit that class struggle still exists. Their denial of reality creates another thread in this joyful, dark satire: the fumbling of “experts” who mobilize theory after theory in order to analyze what is happening without admitting that the events could have any political content.

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"With a cold humor and serial neutrality worthy of the Marquis de Sade, Leslie Kaplan recounts incidents of sudden and 'inexplicable' violence that take place one spring, all over France. This fable about the movement of the yellow vests perfectly and artfully captures the mystery of any movement's essential ingredient: each discrete and individual act of rage." –Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room and The Flamethrowers

"In Disorder, a decapitating political fable, Leslie Kaplan invents the class crime"... Putting words to everyday situations of domination, [she] inscribes a joyfully emancipatory text, a pathway to the literary act that suggests that another world is possible." – L'Humanité

"An unexplained movement, assassinations without a plan, and this cry: Stop the bullshit!... In Disorder, a short, exhilarating story, novelist Leslie Kaplan tells the fable of today's uprisings. Where, without ever saying it directly, laughter wears the color yellow." –Médiapart

"Without consulting each other, without obeying any call-to-arms, in all regions, people become criminals: they shamelessly get rid of their immediate superiors ... Disorder is a fable. Far from being a call to murder, as you might think, it is about cheerfully shaking off the yoke." – Libération

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Details

ISBN-10: 184935393X
ISBN-13: 9781849353939
Publisher: AK Press
Publish Date: 09/15/2020
Dimensions: 6.30" L, 4.40" W, 0.50" H
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