Original scientific paper
Things that Go Nowhere: Scale, City and the List in Richard Price’s Lush Life
Brian Willems
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Abstract
Richard Price’s 2008 crime novel Lush Life develops a narrative strategy
for mediating between large-scale problems and local narratives. Police
officers and suspects must come to terms with both New York City’s
huge scale and the opacity of the suspects’ faulty narratives in order to
solve a murder. Referencing Jean-François Lyotard, Nick Srnicek and
Alex Williams, and The Invisible Committee, among others, the author
develops the narrative strategy of a list (a collection of items devoid
of syntactic connections) as a mediating agent. Price uses the list to
penetrate the large scale of the city and the lies told by suspects. In
Lush Life the list traces connections between the individual and supra-
-individual, suggesting a way to effect change on a large scale in the
age of globalization.
Keywords
scale; Lush Life; list; The Wire; object-oriented ontology
Hrčak ID:
203570
URI
Publication date:
9.7.2018.
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