Against the Written Word: Toward a Universal Illiteracy [Paperback]

What makes Ian Svenonius funny is a little different. Hes funny in his use of language in music, in the ridiculous extended conceits of so many of his songs; hes funny in his prose style, a supercharged Marxist-Leninist jargon placed at the service of deliberate absurdity; hes funny in his presentation as a self-made character, a preaching, yelping, evangelical amalgam of James Brown and the protagonists of Godards? The material is quite varied but all of it is written with Svenoniuss intelligent and revolutionary prose . . . These essays are amongst the more palatable and intriguing Svenonius has written . . . Im not sure Ive ever read anything that is so much about loving written language as Ian F. Svenoniuss?