{"id":5267,"title":"A Society that Breathes Once a Year","dimensions":"14.6 x 22.5 cm, 85 p, language: English, publisher. Book Works, ISBN: 978 1 906012 32 8","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 2024/688","stream_count_app":27,"permalink":"a-society-that-breathes-once-a-year","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/000/010/698/large/Artistnovel_002.jpg?1342085690","poster_credits":"(c)M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man and a woman begin the project of building an isolated, self-sustainable farm, cut off from civilisation. Against all expectations the first thing they have to confront is the construction of a road, and the constant reminder of the present left behind. Through a non-linear narrative, the two protagonists drive through the tawdry present, only to realise a future set deeply in the past. Their meagre provisions and inexperience places them at odds with survival, but at one with a mesmerising fiction. Haunted by the spectres of dead rabbits and a prophetic bear the couples utopian dream is delivered in a rapid, dense stream of language as if the text itself wants to return to the pace of present.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://bookworks.org.uk/node/1702\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEen man en een vrouw beginnen met de bouw van een ge\u0026iuml;soleerde, zelfvoorzienende boerderij, afgesloten van de beschaving. Tegen alle verwachtigen in is hun eerste uitdaging het aanleggen van een weg, en de voortdurende herinnering aan het heden dat ze achterlaten. Doorheen een non-lineair verhaal rijden de twee hoofdpersonages door het smakeloze heden, louter om een toekomst te realiseren die stevig is geworteld in het verleden. Hun bescheiden voorzieningen en gebrek aan ervaring staat haaks op survival, maar komt perfect overeen met fascinerende fictie. Achtervolgd door de schimmen van dode konijnen en een profetische beer wordt de utopische droom van het koppel gebracht in een snelle, dichte stroom van taal, alsof de tekst zelf wilt terugkeren naar het tempo van het heden.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://bookworks.org.uk/node/1702\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"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":1859,"name":"Alex Cecchetti","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}}]}