Book of Water

The Book of Water by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos is a collection of short stories that explore desire, fear, life, care, and ecological anxiety through the physical and metaphysical presence of water. The water is not the open, bucolic water of the romantic imagination but the claustrophobic water of the deep seabed, flooded cities, and womb. The stories are narrated by a multiplicity of voices preoccupied with everyday psychological situations but eventually give way to surreal and disorienting moments of ethical, political, psychoanalytical, ecological, and personal challenges. The protagonist remains the body of water, and the bodies in the collection include not only human-nonhuman and inhuman but also the planet and its various elements.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 70 pages
Publication date: 05 December 2022
Publisher: URTEXT LTD

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos's Book of Water is a collection of short stories that explore themes of desire, fear, life, care, and ecological anxiety through the physical and metaphysical presence of water. Unlike the romantic notion of open, bucolic water, the water in this collection is claustrophobic, representing the deep seabed, flooded cities, and the womb. It brings oblivion, serenity, and salvation. At first glance, the stories seem to be narrated by a multitude of voices preoccupied with everyday psychological situations. However, as the narrative progresses, the quotidian withdraws, giving way to surreal and disorienting moments of ethical, political, psychoanalytical, ecological, and personal challenges. The book is a literary response to the current geological epoch of the Anthropocene, where the impact of human presence on the planet and its various elements seems irreversible. The bodies in this collection are not limited to the human-nonhuman-inhuman binary, but the protagonist remains the body of water.

Weight: 128g
Dimension: 150 x 240 x 8 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781912475193