The Faces of Pluto
forthcoming 2024 at Stalking Horse Press.
Excerpts published in Futch Journal: ‘Hostius Quadra and his mirrors‘ and Cephalophore #2 ‘The man in the burrow‘.
“A book which effaces more than two thousand years of humanism with corrosive pleasure and without success. Relishing that failure, devouring it, sucking the juice from the bone.” — Emile Bojesen
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Books are read in an instant and by a single eye. Libraries can no longer burn, they are already in the air. There is nothing left for admirers of truth or accuracy but submission to the absolute, unalterable veracity of the word.
The Faces of Pluto remembers an earlier time when truth was a casualty of transcription and errors were commonplace if not an art in themselves. It returns something to reading and to writing of the mechanics of picking up, turning over, and distorting, if not catastrophically over-looking books which were left to rot or would be remembered only in fragments. From Empedocles to Borges, from Thomas Browne to Herodotus and back again, it resurrects the fecundity of error and the compiler’s fancy.
Roving freely between the works of a diverse range of dead assemblers—compilers of words, of wisdoms, and of bones—this book gathers and reinscribes their leftovers in an extended meditation on death, (re)burial, and remembrance.
SHORT FILM
A BOOK IN THE SHAPE OF AN ORB
Emile Bojesen’s forthcoming album, ‘A Book in the Shape of an Orb’ was written in conversation with The Faces of Pluto – “a false representation of false representations. A distorted facsimile of music. Arresting, with few, if any places to dwell or rest. A resonant depth of sound, yet withholding the security of that sense of more than a surface, or, perhaps, a surface overcast by another partial layer, a floating skin. Intimate, inaccessible, jaggedly delicate and the embarrassing triumph of a particle about to be dematerialised.”
Ansgar Allen 