{"id":13043,"title":"Ah Well - A Romance in Perpetuity \u0026 And to You Also","dimensions":"18.3 x 12.2 cm, 234 p., language : English, publisher : Routledge \u0026 Kegan Paul Ltd, London, ISBN : 0-7100-7666-5, Ah Well, first published in 1942 - And To You Also, first published in 1944","date_begin":"1974-01-01","material":"Ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"Artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2027/154","stream_count_app":8,"permalink":"ah-well-a-romance-in-perpetuity-and-to-you-also","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/029/583/large/Untitled074.jpg?1435648318","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--[if gte mso 9]\u003e\u003cxml\u003e\r\n \u003co:DocumentProperties\u003e\r\n  \u003co:Version\u003e15.00\u003c/o:Version\u003e\r\n \u003c/o:DocumentProperties\u003e\r\n \u003co:OfficeDocumentSettings\u003e\r\n  \u003co:TargetScreenSize\u003e800x600\u003c/o:TargetScreenSize\u003e\r\n \u003c/o:OfficeDocumentSettings\u003e\r\n\u003c/xml\u003e\u003c![endif]--\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAh Well\u003c/em\u003e is a story told by Dusty Brown, a character of indeterminate age, who is new in town. He may have lived there for many years; but, unlike most of the people in town, he had not lived there his entire life. It is an E-shaped town in a valley, with a river running through it and a fountain in its central square. We are never told the name of the town, but we learn quite a lot about the people who live there. There are young people, old people, and children, but no one seems to age. Brown never hears of a birth or of anyone dying a natural death. People leave town in two ways: they commit suicide or they get on their horse and leave.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Richard Buck\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd to You Also\u003c/em\u003e has as its main character Bowsie whom Yeats says he created to listen to him\u0026mdash;\u0026ldquo;and he began to talk to himself, and even his back never looked like listening!\u0026rdquo; So the book might be described as a talking match between an author and his characters, who never listen to him.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":2698,"name":"Jack Butler Yeats","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}}]}