Bøger af Leslie Kaplan

Leslie Kaplan (f. 1943) er en fransk forfatterinne. Himlenes bog er en historie om møder med himle, huse og mennesker. I en verden hvor smerte og lidenskab, relationer og erfaring er tils tede mellem objekter og landskab. Himlenes bog (Le livre des ciels) udkom i 1983, og ligger i forlængelse af værket Overskridelsen-fabrikken (L’excès-l’usine), 1982, hvilket Forlaget Basilisk oversatte og udgav i 2013.

In this brilliant and hilarious political novella, Leslie Kaplan imagines a series of unconnected crimes occurring throughout France. In each, a subordinate kills someone in a superior position over themtypically with an object used in their work, be it wiring in an auto shop, a huge sack of coffee, or a blackboard eraser. While these acts (no explanation is ever given by the criminals) clearly have a class-related character, the media and public figures are loathe to admit that class struggle still exists. Their denial of reality creates another thread in this joyful, dark satire: the fumbling of ';experts' who mobilize theory after theory in order to analyze what is happening without admitting that the events could have any political content.