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Dead Souls

by Sam Riviere
Thomas Judd
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For listeners of Roberto Bolaño’s Savage Detectives and Muriel Spark’s Loitering with Intent, this “sublime” and “delightfully unhinged” metaphysical mystery disguised as a picaresque romp follows one poet’s spectacular fall from grace to ask a vital question: Is everyone a plagiarist? (Nicolette Polek, author of Imaginary Museums).
A scandal has shaken the literary world. As the unnamed narrator of Dead Souls discovers at a cultural festival in central London, the offender is Solomon Wiese, a poet accused of plagiarism. Later that same evening, at a bar near Waterloo Bridge, our narrator encounters the poet in person, and listens to the story of Wiese’s rise and fall, a story that takes the entire night—and the remainder of the novel—to tell.
Wiese reveals his unconventional views on poetry, childhood encounters with “nothingness,” a conspiracy involving the manipulation of documents in the public domain, an identity crisis, a retreat to the country, a meeting with an ex-serviceman with an unexpected offer, the death of an old poet, a love affair with a woman carrying a signpost, an entanglement with a secretive poetry cult, and plans for a triumphant return to the capital, through the theft of poems, illegal war profits, and faked social media accounts—plans in which our narrator discovers he is obscurely implicated.
Dead Souls is a metaphysical mystery brilliantly encased in a picaresque romp, a novel that asks a vital question for anyone who makes or engages with art: Is everyone a plagiarist?

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    May 18, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9780593502761
      • File size: 246402 KB
      • Duration: 08:33:20

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Rankin's police procedurals are set in rainy Edinburgh, and feature the crusty and interesting Detective Inspector Rebus and his crew. This time they're investigating a host of cases, including the apparent suicide of a colleague, a released serial killer, a missing teenager, and a released pedophile. Only Rebus can imagine any connections. Using vocal nuances, Geoffrey Howard conveys the atmosphere of Rebus's Edinburgh--its slums and pubs, and their inhabitants. He also conveys the fine points of character in a well-paced and involving performance. R.E.K. (c) AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine

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  • English

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