🏫On writing and translating The Topeka School, with Ben Lerner and Jakuta Alikavazovic🏫
The Shakespeare and Company Interview
00:00
The Topeka School
The Topeka School was published in 2019, so probably was conceived several years before that. I think it became right notable for me when that kind of indefensible formal proclivity to write in these kinds of sequences or cycles met the theme of prehistory. So my idea and so far as I knew what I was doing was to produce the end of a trilogy or maybe the end ofa sex type, but to do it by writing the prehistory of all the other books. And of course, prehistory is the theme, the pre history of a voice,. The prehistory of the bankruptcy of American political discourse and repetition and modulation across generations.
Transcript
Play full episode
