{"product_id":"molloy-the-flip-side-1609641124","title":"Molloy: The Flip Side","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1609641124\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Tysh, Chris\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMolloy: The Flip Side transcreates the first half of Beckett's 1951 French novel, narrated by its eponymous anti-hero who is slowly going nowhere. The hobo lyrics of Tysh's book-length poem open up the unendurable abyss of being, yet zing with vernacular and zany humor: \"Gotta check out soon\/ Be done with dying,\" Molloy says, but there's a few things he must do first. And so begins the uncanny journey in this poetic B-side of Beckett's masterpiece. ________________________________________________________________________ Chris Tysh reads in, around, and through Molloy in this ingenious transformation of Becketts French prose into compulsively vernacular English tercets. The narrative echoes in Molloy: The Flip Side make for an unsettling familiarity, spiked with the verbal equivalent of dark chocolate and homemade rum. - Charles Bernstein In Molloy: The Flip Side, Chris Tysh transcreates- rather than translates-the Beckett classic into a Matthew O'Connor-cum-Tiresias rant. \"Has a leak in his tank\/Button missing a hole\/In his wig, you feel me?\" The indeterminate narrator of Tysh's formal tercets replicates the dialectics of gender, the Oedipal complex (\"The thing is Mother and I - \/My shitty start - are so old now\/ We're like two sere fucks on a rail\") and, more generally, the problem of desire and knowledge vis--vis the world. That's a heady set of balls to keep up in the air, but Tysh's nimble enjambments and seamless heteroglossia (existential angst dukes it out with post-trip-hop surliness) keep things moving, propelling this mock-epic to its jocular, inconclusive, stop. -Tyrone Williams\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67778182316320,"sku":"NEW1609641124","price":80.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/41ATgAiySdL.jpg?v=1792048288","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/en-ca\/products\/molloy-the-flip-side-1609641124","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}