My new short story ‘Atelier Diocletian II (Figures after Ivan Martinac)’ was commissioned by Richard Skinner for his great new anthology, The Hinge of a Metaphor: a collection of essays on cinema, out now on Vanguard Editions.
It’s not, of course, an essay. It’s a work of fiction. A detective story that explores the work of Croatian film-maker Ivan Martinac (rough pronunciation guide: eeVAN marTEEnuts) via the medium of a Coroner’s report into the death by unnatural causes, in the Croatian city of Split, of an English artist who had become obsessed with both Martinac and the city itself.
The book also features some really excellent and original writing by Victoria Best, David Collard, Dan Dalton, Andrew Gallix, Jonathan Gibbs, Susana Medina, Mathilde Merouani, Rachael de Moravia, Dan O’Brien, Christian Patracchini, Imogen Reid, Richard Skinner, Matthew Turner, Owen Vince, and Eley Williams. There was an online event in July to launch the book, but watch this space for IRL events and readings in the autumn…
The Hinge of a Metaphor is available to buy direct from publisher Vanguard Editions, but is also in stock in the ICA Bookshop, and at bookartbookshop, London.
Last year Vanguard Editions published the excellent Selected Essays by the French poet, novelist, teacher, essayist, art critic and translator Michel Butor (1926-2016) in English translation for the first time (translated by Mathilde Merouani, as it happens, who has also contributed to Hinge). So by buying The Hinge of a Metaphor you will also be helping an important small press to keep operating.
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Buy my latest novel The Fountain in the Forest direct from publisher Faber and Faber…
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