Glitchhead

Golemgrad Pentalogy #4

by Louis Armand

SIMULTANEOUSLY verbo-visual collage & heterodox detective story about postmortem becoming, Louis Armand’s GLITCHHEAD is a text best read with a breaking fever in the onset of delirium. GLITCHHEAD produces viral mutations that are a labour of conceptualisation in the flesh, a blindfolded combat of erotic error, truth as expressed by implacable contraries that can only be grasped by being endured. The contagion can’t be dialectised. After this, the deluge. Slime, vomit, putrefaction – language re-erupting from primordial DNA. Mutation doesn’t subvert the code, it is the code (every axiom is an ironic refusal of the world). Remember, “people have been jailed for using the wrong software to access reality”; the question remains, what runs the machine?

86 pages, Paperback

First published April 21, 2021

About the author

Louis Armand is a writer and visual artist who has lived in Prague since 1994. He has worked as an editor and publisher, and as a subtitles technician at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and is an editor of VLAK magazine. He is the author of eight novels, including Breakfast at Midnight in 2012, "a perfect modern noir, presenting Kafka's Prague as a bleak, monochrome singularity of darkness, despair and edgy, dry existentialist hardboil" (Richard Marshall, 3:AM), CAIRO (Equus Press, 2014; short listed for the Guardian's Not-the-Booker Prize), and THE COMBINATIONS (Equus Press, 2016). Described as "Robert Pinget does Canetti (in drag in Yugoslavia)," Armand's third novel Clair Obscur was published by Equus in 2011. His previous novel, Menudo (Antigen), was described as "unrelenting, a flying wedge, an encyclopaedia of the wasteland, an uzi assault pumping desolation lead... inspiring!" (Thor Garcia, author of The News Clown).

Reviews

[Black Glove · Rating 4 out of 5]

Contagion creates us in its image.
I got this from lulu. // glitchhead is [quote]: "the chaotic inventory of aftereffects" from the author's larger work - Vampyr (2020). Feverous text & disquieting imagery merge to create a pocketbook of delirium. Philosophical litter, narrative slime,¬ s'all mind-bogglingly weird. Bravo! A taster for the bigger book, Vampyr. >>