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The Repeat room : a novel / Jesse Ball. - First edition. - New York : Catapult, 2024. - [10], 241, [2] strony : ilustracja ; 21 cm.

Author

Ball Jesse (1978- ). Autor

Form of Work

Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura amerykańska

Subject

Ława przysięgłych Sądownictwo Oskarżenie Biurokracja Absurd (filozofia)

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Książka w języku angielskim. In a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system. At the heart of this system is the repeat room, where a single juror, selected from hundreds of candidates, is able to inhabit the defendant’s lived experience, to see as if through their eyes. The case to which Abel is assigned is revealed in the novel’s shocking second act. We receive a record of a boy’s broken and constrained life, a tale that reveals an illicit and passionate psycho-sexual relationship, its end as tragic as the circumstances of its conception. Artful in its suspense, and sharp in its evocation of a byzantine and cruel bureaucracy, "The repeat room" is an exciting and pointed critique of the nature of knowledge and judgment, and a vivid framing of Ball’s absurd and nihilistic philosophy of love.

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