Texts That Shouldn't Be Read Out Loud

by Adrian Bridget, Kenneth Goldsmith (Foreword)

TEXTS THAT SHOULDN’T BE READ OUT LOUD is a collection of prose work concerned with both the production and the subversion of fiction. It investigates how fiction can shape the experience of affect in the contemporary subject, being at times disjointed, dystopian, and unsettling—as much as it is inviting. ‘So what are we to do with a book that, with the exception of one or two pieces, is bereft of proper names? We have to develop alternative reading strategies,’ writes Kenneth Goldsmith in his foreword, ‘this is a hookless text, resembling the namelessness and anonymously flat spaces of Beckett’s late prose as much as it does the rambling excess of the alphanumeric internet.’

144 pages, Paperback

Published February 21, 2018

About the author

Adrian Bridget is a Brazilian-British writer based in Bristol, UK. Their publications include the novels Treatment, Child's Replay, and England With Eggs. Adrian is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Bristol, where they are developing a project on affect and adopted-language literature.