Ship Of Theseus
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: ephemeras included.
A man wakes on a ship with no memory of who he is or how he got there — this is the disorienting, labyrinthine premise of Ship of Theseus, the final novel attributed to the enigmatic and unidentified author V.M. Straka. Published as the centrepiece of J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst's ambitious transmedia project simply titled S., the novel chronicles the odyssey of a nameless protagonist, known only as S., as he is swept into a world of shifting identities, sinister crews, and conspiratorial forces that seem to rewrite reality itself. Set across churning, timeless seas, the narrative pulls the reader into a vortex of mystery where nothing — not the ship, not the crew, not even S. himself — can be trusted to remain the same. What makes this work a truly singular literary artifact is its layered architecture: the novel arrives filled with the handwritten margin notes of two modern-day readers, Jen and Eric, whose own unfolding story of obsession, scholarship, and connection runs parallel to Straka's text. The result is a meditation on authorship, identity, and the power of stories to possess their readers. Straka's prose — terse, hallucinatory, and deeply symbolic — draws on the ancient philosophical paradox of the Ship of Theseus to ask a haunting question: if every part of a person is replaced by experience and loss, is anything of the original self left behind?
Author: V.M. Straka
Format: Hardback
Published: 2013
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: ephemeras included.
A man wakes on a ship with no memory of who he is or how he got there — this is the disorienting, labyrinthine premise of Ship of Theseus, the final novel attributed to the enigmatic and unidentified author V.M. Straka. Published as the centrepiece of J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst's ambitious transmedia project simply titled S., the novel chronicles the odyssey of a nameless protagonist, known only as S., as he is swept into a world of shifting identities, sinister crews, and conspiratorial forces that seem to rewrite reality itself. Set across churning, timeless seas, the narrative pulls the reader into a vortex of mystery where nothing — not the ship, not the crew, not even S. himself — can be trusted to remain the same. What makes this work a truly singular literary artifact is its layered architecture: the novel arrives filled with the handwritten margin notes of two modern-day readers, Jen and Eric, whose own unfolding story of obsession, scholarship, and connection runs parallel to Straka's text. The result is a meditation on authorship, identity, and the power of stories to possess their readers. Straka's prose — terse, hallucinatory, and deeply symbolic — draws on the ancient philosophical paradox of the Ship of Theseus to ask a haunting question: if every part of a person is replaced by experience and loss, is anything of the original self left behind?