Publication

2007-12-26 - Oberon Books

Language

English

Word Count

29,500 words, Guess

Page Count

118 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

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Classifications

  • LCCPR6052.A6485

Description

"Howard Barker's alter-ego Eduardo Houth first materialised as the photographer of publicity images for Barker's theatre company The Wrestling School, one among many fictional identities assumed by him to screen a range of his activities, including set and costume design. Writing of himself in the third person and in the historic tense, Barker/Houth achieves a fluency and an uncommon measure of objectivity, though objectivity is scarcely part of his intention. The result is a unique exercise in self-description, partisan but without the shrill self-justification so common in authentic autobiography. Barker/Houth's A Style and Its Origins is a literary creation, as befits its authorial origins; it is also a document of total originality and a rich source of dramatic and aesthetic history."--Jacket.

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