Nothing from Nothing: A Novella for None [Paperback]

This is a new and revolutionary book in which the reader constructs the meaning of what is read, and what the obsequious critics missed is that without their construction there is no meaning at all contained within these pages. This is a new and revolutionary book in which the reader constructs the meaning of what is read, and what the obsequious critics missed is that without their construction there is no meaning at all contained within these pages.N. Nosirrah is a writer of uncertain origin, unstable biography, and questionable public record. He is the author of multiple books that were either deeply influential or immediately regretted, but nonetheless heralded as modern classics. His work has been described as philosophy, anti-philosophy, performance art, unsolicited revelation, and totally unnecessary.

He is believed to have once held a series of identities long enough to lose track of which ones were legally binding. At various points, he has been reported as a mystic, a con artist, a dropout from reality, and a man in possession of too many metaphors for one lifetime.

Nosirrah does not currently maintain a public presence, a fixed address, or a consistent opinion about anything he has written. Whether he is an author or simply a literary misunderstanding remains unresolved.Everything in this book, from the very title and name of the author, is playfully nihilistic, and not to be taken seriously. The author, it might be said, is carrying out the work of Shiva the destroyer, to bring down every preconception we might have about belief, art, the self, the novel, meaning, and existence itself. Yet like the wisdom of yoga, there is a redeeming wisdom here which can delight in the very spirit of playful dance, in which destruction and creation are two faces of the same art.

From the very beginning, the so-called Editor's Preface, by a Lydia Smyth, is suspect, along with the Foreword by a dubious Nebirk Yallip. Later in the text the author intelã¦