- 2020 edition. SIGNED. 211 pages
- Publisher.Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop.
- Softcover. Format C
- Condition. Very good.
A Surrealist Novel
During the writing of his autobiography, Die Bibel (published in 2016 by Steele/Roberts), Michael O’Leary began a parallel fictional autobiography which he conceived as an ‘apocrypha’ of additional aspects to his intellectual life, a kind of Rainbows End of the Mind, as its characters & events ride a rollercoaster of the psyche, encompassing an emotional weltanschauung, what might be called the Stratosfear of history & life.
It reads not unlike the earliest Dadaist writings & therefore has the sub-title: a Surrealist Novel. Perhaps it’s about dislocation in society: perhaps it isn’t. Maybe it’s about a suburban man becoming unsettled in real life & entering the ‘other’ world of the imagination: maybe it isn’t.
Apocrypha Scripta is about identity & belonging. It is also a complex & often beguiling look at the ‘Sixties’ generation of peace & love & anti-materialism which morphed & degenerated into the ‘I, me, mine’ of the ‘reforms’ of the mid-eighties & nineties which created the 21st Century Schizoid Person, fuelled by technology & greed, love & dreams, war & peace, culminating in the ‘stop the world, I wanna get off’ motif, as the world cries from Cloud 9, 2020 Vision & Reality of COVID-19 & the ‘Existential Crisis’ of realising that we need to not want so much, as well as finally understanding that the word ‘Existential’ might really have a meaning.
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