Then Then Then by Scott Daughtridge DeMer
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Then Then Then follows an unnamed narrator who spends five years trying to create a painting that will fulfill the vision of rogue physicist Katarina Navanri. Instead of admitting failure, he decides to eat the painting. The man and his work meld together and create a space and time where symbols of image and language erode the artist's mind and the world around him.
ThenThenThen examines the limits of language and borders of insanity and art. Daughtridge’s visceral sentences blur the boundaries of interior and exterior—body, landscape, paint, and the narrator’s mind all blend and become inseparable. With echoes of Hilda Hilst and Blake Butler, this is a daring and inventive debut.
—Babak Lakghomi, author of South
ThenThenThen has an obsessive, unrestrained, imploring horror to it. The narrator endures the demand of art in every bit of his fragmenting body, brain and soul. It is painful and exhilarating to experience the act of creation and destruction alongside him. I am changed by this book. I wish every book made me feel as much as this one did.
—Jac Jemc, author of The Grip of It and Empty Theatre
—Babak Lakghomi, author of South
ThenThenThen has an obsessive, unrestrained, imploring horror to it. The narrator endures the demand of art in every bit of his fragmenting body, brain and soul. It is painful and exhilarating to experience the act of creation and destruction alongside him. I am changed by this book. I wish every book made me feel as much as this one did.
—Jac Jemc, author of The Grip of It and Empty Theatre