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In this haunting meditation on art, death, and intention, The Joke follows K., a failed artist whose abandoned thesis project—a grotesque mechanical puppet—has left him living with his aunt in quiet desperation. After inheriting her house following her death, K. begins meticulously constructing an elaborate suicide machine in his new apartment, all while wrestling with memories of his artistic past and contemplating an alternative plan: a final road trip to the West. As K. obsesses over the purity of his intended death, he finds himself drawn into fevered contemplations of reincarnation, quantum mechanics, and the possibility of eternal recurrence through the spinning halo of a chainsaw. With prose that moves between philosophical reflection and hallucinatory detail, Smiley crafts a darkly comic exploration of artistic purpose, the aesthetics of suicide, and the tension between mechanical intention and organic resistance. The Joke asks what it means to create something truly purposeful in a world where even our deaths can become mere objects of art.
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Year:
2025
Edition:
First
Publisher:
Ephesus Press
Language:
English
Pages:
190
ISBN 13:
9798991636407
ISBN:
9798991636407

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