The Poltinus

Year for Search
2023
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Annotation

The Plotinus is a robot who arrests a young man and leaves him in a cell with minimal light coming him through a vent. The brief novel records his rappings in code that tell his life story. For a substantial review, see Marina Warner, “Torrents of Magpies, Spheres of Hope.” The New York Review of Books 71.14 (September 19, 2024): 41-42.

Pagination
73 pp.
Published Date

2023

Publisher
Coffee House Press
Place Published
Minneapolis, MN
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ISBN Number
978-1566896818
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2023 Ducornet, [Erica DeGré] (b. 1943). The Plotinus. By Rikki Ducornet [pseud.]. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press. 73 pp. PU

The Plotinus is a robot who arrests a young man and leaves him in a cell with minimal light coming him through a vent. The brief novel records his rappings in code that tell his life story. For a substantial review, see Marina Warner, “Torrents of Magpies, Spheres of Hope.” The New York Review of Books 71.14 (September 19, 2024): 41-42. The female author was born in the U.S. and raised there, Cuba, and Egypt. She lived in France for a decade, spent time in Algeria, and currently lives in the U.S.

Info Notes

For a substantial review, see Marina Warner, “Torrents of Magpies, Spheres of Hope.” The New York Review of Books 71.14 (September 19, 2024): 41-42.

Pseudonym

Rikki Ducornet [pseud.]

Holding Institutions

PU

Author Note

The female author (b. 1943) was born in the U.S. and raised there, Cuba, and Egypt. She lived in France for a decade, spent time in Algeria, and currently lives in the U.S.