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Elle: A Verse Novel
Paperback
Publisher Price: $17.99
ISBN13: 9781917617475
Publisher: Broken Sleep Books
Published: Nov 30 2025
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.24 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Elle: A Verse Novel by Robert Sheppard is a fierce, densely layered détournement, refashioning Joseph Kessel's Belle de Jour through splices, warpings, and an unnerving overlay of 1960s Brighton scandal onto a surrealist template. Blending procedural method with pulp volatility, Sheppard mines and retools the idioms of violence, sex, media, and myth, threading the ghosts of Buñuel, Jeff Keen, and the tabloid unconscious into a shattered, many-voiced delirium. The book is both critique and enactment of representation: a work pursued by its maker, stalked by its forms, and shadowed by Christine. Elle is a hauntological lyric, a summoning that won't let the archive lie still.
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