The Occidental Hotel
by John Mays
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Pub Date Sep 01 2020 | Archive Date Dec 30 2020
Guernica Editions Inc | Guernica Editions
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Description
"Mays’s passion for art electrifies fascinating sketches of Beuys." -Quill and Quire
A brooding fugitive hides out in a crumbling hotel that was once filled with celebrities enjoying the successes of postwar America. He is a racist with a criminal past, an anti-hero who reflects on the ruins of the South and simultaneously on the life of a German performance artist called "Jupp". The fictional Jupp is a thinly-veiled cipher for the late real-life German artist, Joseph Beuys, and the photos in the novel are photos of the performances by the controversial Beuys. At once echoing the moody worlds of W. G. Sebald and incorporating outrageous elements of pulp fiction, this novel of dark romanticism is not for optimists seeking redemption, but for those willing to take a look into a searing heart of darkness.
Advance Praise
“I was shocked and appalled, admiring and afraid for his reputation as John wrote an unconventional piece of work with one of the most horrible anti-hero narrators I had read since John Fowles’ The Collector.” —Antanas Sileika
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781771835145 |
| PRICE | $17.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 250 |
