UnAmerica
2015
Artist Novel, 20 x 14 cm, 192 p., language : French, publisher : Le Serpent à Plumes, La Madeleine-de-Nonancourt (FR), ISBN : 979-10-94680-06-3 (First edition : Penny-Ante Editions, Los Angeles, 2014).
Materials: Ink, paper
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. B 2029/355).
Literary synopsis
In UnAmerica, a young man, Brad, is approached by God. God is not what He once was; He now works as a janitor in a Tastee Freez in South Carolina, and has "late-onset Alzheimer's". America has come to displease Him, so, lacking the strength to destroy it himself, God sets Brad a task; to re-enact the sixth-century voyage of Saint Brendan, in reverse. Brendan was an Irish monk who may well have discovered America; Brad, by reversing Brendan's voyage, is to undiscover America, causing it to cease to be. The voyage itself turns out to be almost an afterthought; the heart of the book is in America, as Brad deals with surreal tragicomic family, health and work problems, while slowly and incompetently assembling his crew.
Authorship: Artist Author.
Creative Strategy: No Link to Artworks.
Genre: Satire.
Publishing: Publishing House.
Theme: American Culture, Music, Religion, Travels.
