Louis Mason - The Attendants - Sixteen Stories

Louis Mason

Ma Bibliotheque, ISBN 9781910055960,
Pb, 152 pgs, 12 x 19cm
Acqn. 33807
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£13.99
If you listen very carefully in the moments when the wind drops you will hear the soft movements deeper in, far back and away from these theatres of display and bad commerce, slow movements through rooms where that other game is played, where the light is cheap and white and very bright and where every single detail is inscribed for all time in exactly the mode that it was originally conceived. The Attendants is a collection of fiction, written over a five-year period, from 2017, when the author moved to London, to early 2023. All the stories in this collection were written in response to art exhibitions or works of art. They represent an attempt to develop a coherent response to art: what it does and how it functions (and occasionally ceases to function) in London now. Many of the stories are genre pieces, horror, fantasy, and science fiction, but all have the complex interrelations of the image, the city, the eye, and the body at their centre.