Fiction. Art. Translated from the French by Veronika Stankovianska and David Vichnar. Philippe Sollers' groundbreaking 1973 novel H was inspired by the May 1968 Paris student/worker uprising, and, in its own right, performs a revolt against much that's been (and still is) taken for granted in the belles lettres.
Described as a music that is inscribed in language, becoming the object of its own reasoning (Julia Kristeva) and as an unpunctuated...