{"product_id":"songs-of-chaos","title":"Songs of Chaos","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Antonio Moresco\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Max Lawton\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second novel of Antonio Moresco’s \u003cem\u003eGames of Eternity\u003c\/em\u003e trilogy, a Sadean Odyssey through the worlds of publishing and pornography, culminating in an apocalypse worthy of William Blake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 17th, 2027\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback ISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781646054794\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook ISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781646054800\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike all great epics, \u003cem\u003eSongs of Chaos\u003c\/em\u003e begins in medias res. Our narrator has failed to write a great (or even a publishable) book. \u003cem\u003eThe Beginnings\u003c\/em\u003e, a Baroque autofiction dealing with his time as a monk and a revolutionary, has been deemed unreadable. He needs a new method—one congruent with the brave new world he inhabits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver the 1,000 pages that follow, we are led through a global network of blind alleys and subterranean passages, all of which double as Dantean cantos. The writer and his publisher listen in on perverse monologues from characters like the Man Who Steps in Shit, the Sperm Donor, and the Muse (an escort who moonlights as a consultant for blocked writers)—then are themselves made to descend into this realm where pornography meets metaphysics. Nearly one thousand pages of Sadean debauchery culminate in a vision of a world being sold by God, written in a grammatical tense that does not exist…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAntonio Moresco\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Mantua and lives in Milan. Considered one of the founders of modern Italian literature, \u003cem\u003eThe Beginnings\u003c\/em\u003e is his second book to be published by Deep Vellum, after \u003cem\u003eClandestinity\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of short stories. He has gone on to publish several more books, among them the short novel \u003cem\u003eLa cipolla\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe Onion\u003c\/em\u003e), the autobiographical \u003cem\u003eLettere a nessuno\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eLetters to No One\u003c\/em\u003e), and \u003cem\u003eDistant Light\u003c\/em\u003e, which was published by Archipelago in 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMax Lawton\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, musician, and translator. He is currently working in close collaboration with Vladimir Sorokin to publish all of his untranslated works in English. His translation of Michael Lentz's \u003cem\u003eSchattenfroh\u003c\/em\u003e was one of the most anticipated English-language titles of 2025. Max is also currently working on or has plans to translate works by Antonio Moresco, Stefano D’Arrigo, Alberto Laiseca, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Eduard Limonov, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Hans Henny Jahnn, and Miquel de Palol. His first novel, \u003cem\u003eProgress\u003c\/em\u003e, is coming out with Verso in 2027. His translations have appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003en+1\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHarper’s\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Baffler\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe White Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eJoyland\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Los Angeles, where, when he isn’t writing, he plays heavy metal and noise music.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48814596882681,"sku":"9781646054794","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":48814596915449,"sku":"9781646054800","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/files\/unnamed_1.jpg?v=1765559799","url":"https:\/\/store.deepvellum.org\/products\/songs-of-chaos","provider":"Deep Vellum","version":"1.0","type":"link"}