In his new book Dead Souls, he can’t write a sentence without stealing someone else’s ideas, yet somehow this becomes its allure let me explain. 9781474617642 Dead Souls 47.9000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/fiction/contemporary /shop/books/fiction 'I first heard about Solomon Wiese on a bright, blustery day on the South Bank.'Ī story that will take the entire night - and the remainder of the novel - to tell. Sam Riviere, Dead Souls Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 320pp, £16.99, ISBN 9781474617642 reviewed by Huw Nesbitt Sam Riviere is a rip-off artist.

'I first heard about Solomon Wiese on a bright, blustery day on the South Bank.'Ī story about childhood encounters with nothingness and a friend's descent into psychosis about conspiracies and poetry cults about a love affair with a woman carrying a signpost and the death of an old poet.Ī story about a retreat to the East Anglian countryside and plans for a triumphant return to the capital, through the theft of poems, illegal war profits and faked social media accounts - plans in which our unnamed narrator discovers he is obscurely implicated.Ī story that will take the entire night - and the remainder of the novel - to tell. Dead Souls is a smart book, in some ways a good one also, its unreadable MPR News English publisher and poet Sam Rivieres debut novel is a long monologue from a poet, disgraced for. In a conversation that lasts until morning, he will hear Solomon Wiese's story of his spectacular fall from grace.Ī story about a scandal that has shaken the literary world and an accusation of serial plagiarism.Ī story about childhood encount. Later that evening, at the bar of the Travelodge near Waterloo Bridge, our unnamed narrator will encounter that very same Solomon Wiese. Dead Souls by Sam Riviere: 9781646221332 : Books For readers of Roberto Bolao's Savage Detectives and Muriel Spark's Loitering with Intent, this 'sublime' and 'delightfully unhinged' metaphysical.

'I first heard about Solomon Wiese on a bright, blustery day on the South Bank.' 0:00 / 1:01:38 Sam Riviere presents 'Dead Souls,' with Lucy Ives Community Bookstore Live 1.

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