{"id":14933,"title":"Time is the Assassin","dimensions":"20.9 x 14 cm, 87 p., language : English, publisher : Antenne Publishing, London \u0026 Frenetic Happiness, Paris, ISBN : 978-1-908806-02-4","date_begin":"2012-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA,  Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2028/380","stream_count_app":7,"permalink":"time-is-the-assassin","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/000/034/013/large/AN_001_29112016.jpg?1480434283","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis \u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTime is the Assassin\u003c/em\u003e takes the form of an autobiographical novel, ghostwritten by Kristian Skylstad. The story follows Victor, his two brothers, and two of their friends on a night out in the neighborhood were Victor grew up (and Skylstad too, as chance would have it.) \u003cem\u003eTime is the Assassin\u003c/em\u003e is narrated chiefly in the form of a dialog between the five of them, interspersed with flashbacks to Victor\u0026#39;s past and the increasingly perverse and surreal events of their intoxicated night as it unfolds, out of Victor\u0026#39;s hands. Autobiographical truth and the presumed consistency of Victor\u0026#39;s self gradually unravels as it merges with Skylstad\u0026#39;s attempts at expanding the reflective operations of his character across an insurmountable array of topics and references, abandoning the concept of autobiography in favour of a furious, interpretative, projective and wildly schizophrenic prose-exposition of the narrative\u0026#39;s central character, Victor Boullet. The text feels written with the sadistic glee of a ghostwriter that knows his subject is bound by contract to accept his version as final. Sophisticated montage technique is conflated with shameless plagiarism and downright theft.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.melkgalleri.no/archives/3059\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"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":3029,"name":"Kristian Skylstad","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}},{"id":3028,"name":"Victor Boullet","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}}]}