Professor Glass

Matthew Caley

Published Feb 2011
ISBN 9780956644503

Price £10  (inc UK p&p*)

Professor Glass is Matthew Caley’s ‘lost’ fin de siècle concept collection. Its eponymous, transparent persona can barely hold his life together, never mind the narrative the reader might want to intuit between the lines of the text. He may be a professor in some unspecified subject, in some un-named university in central nowhere, caught between a loathing for his subject and his salary; between modernist certainty and postmodern doubt; between every academic / pedagogic argument going; between his wife and his nubile charges, between the body politic and a disembodied discourse; or he may only be a spectral creature forged out of the curious mix of languages found in academia. If Jean Baudrillard was right in saying reality no longer emits enough signs to guarantee its existence, the Professor’s text might represent the last, saving sparks of his own being.

 

At last, somebody with intelligence, wit and a vocabulary who can crack open a cultural canapé and lay out its extravagance for us ... ‘ – John Hartley Williams

 

 

 

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