The Eyelid
by S. D. Chrostowska
Description
In the near future, sleep has been banned. Our unemployed, dream-prone narrator finds himself following Chevauchet, a diplomat from Onirica, a foreign republic of dreams, to resist the prohibition. On a mission to combat the state-sponsored drugging of citizens with uppers for greater productivity, they traverse an eerie landscape in an everlasting autumn, able to see inside other people’s nightmares and dreams. When Chevauchet, the old radical, disappears, our narrator must take up Chevauchet’s dictum that ‘daydreaming is directly subversive’ and forge ahead on his own.
In slippery, exhilarating, and erudite prose, The Eyelid revels in the camaraderie of free thinking that can only happen on the lam, aiming to rescue a species that can no longer dream.
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Rights Information
Rights Held: World English
Author Biography
S. D. CHROSTOWSKA is Professor of Humanities and Social & Political Thought at York University, Toronto. She is the author of Literature on Trial: The Emergence of Critical Discourse in Germany, Poland, and Russia, 1700–1800 (2012); Permission: A Novel (2013); and Matches: A Light Book (2015, 2nd enlarged ed. 2019).
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Coach House Books
- Publication Date October 2019
- ISBN/Identifier 9781552453919
- Publication Country or regionCanada
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 19.95 CAD
- Pages192
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions8.25 x 5.25 inches
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