
Untitled
Kiwa(Author)
KIWA (Publisher)
Published on 4. March 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
979-8-230-95459-0 (ISBN)
Description
Untitled is a labyrinthine journey into the fractured layers of identity, language, and perception. Structured as a nonlinear narrative that oscillates between hallucination, philosophy of perception, and biting meta-commentary, the novel dissolves the boundaries between its characters, its narrator, and the text itself.
The protagonist-a nameless, shape-shifting entity-finds themselves trapped in an endless loop of rooms, corridors, and inexplicably recurring scenarios. Each space they enter reveals another distorted reflection of their existence. As the protagonist interacts with these rooms, they navigate everything from mundane conversations to deeply metaphysical dilemmas about the nature of reality and the limitations of language.
As Untitled progresses, the novel takes a sharp turn into dangerous realism: the boundaries of fiction dissolve as the narrative collapses under its own weight. The protagonist becomes aware of their existence within the text, trapped in recursive loops of false starts and fractured conclusions. Scenes bleed into one another, structured like a Möbius strip, where every ending becomes another beginning.
Key motifs-like the unnervingly static "null point" and the mysterious manuscript that rewrites itself-create a framework where the reader becomes complicit in deciphering the novel's opaque structure. Philosophical musings on creation, absurdity, and the limits of the self are juxtaposed with moments of sharp humor, absurd coincidences, and recurring allusions to forgotten histories and impossible architecture.
A study of repetition, rupture, and the haunting specter of meaning, the novel invites readers to get lost in its circular logic and find their own truths-or to embrace the fact that some stories are meant to remain unresolved.
More details
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
242 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-230-95459-0 (9798230954590)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
KIWA is a multichannel meta-artist. He actively explores and blends different media, from conceptual objects to total audiovisual environments: all together functioning as a hypertextual research of meaning-making and cultural codes, collective and personal myths.
He blends the meaning of authorship on different levels. Interested in quote, pastiche, games of language and identity, (post)psychoanalysis and schizoanalysis were self-explanatory as literary methods. The book of KIWA is a labyrinth, or rather a labyrinth in a labyrinth.