Dead Souls

Synopsis

For Readers Of Roberto Bolaño's Savage Detectives And Muriel Spark's Loitering With Intent, This Metaphysical Mystery Disguised As A Picaresque Romp Follows One Poet's Spectacular Fall From Grace To Ask A Vital Question: Is Everyone A Plagiarist? A Scandal Has Shaken The Literary World. As The Unnamed Narrator Of Dead Souls Discovers At A Cultural Festival In Central London, The Offender Is Solomon Wiese, A Poet Accused Of Plagiarism. Later That Same Evening, At A Bar Near Waterloo Bridge, Our Narrator Encounters The Poet In Person, And Listens To The Story Of Wiese's Rise And Fall, A Story That Takes The Entire Night--and The Remainder Of The Novel--to Tell. Wiese Reveals His Unconventional Views On Poetry, Childhood Encounters With Nothingness, A Conspiracy Involving The Manipulation Of Documents In The Public Domain, An Identity Crisis, A Retreat To The Country, A Meeting With An Ex-serviceman With An Unexpected Offer, The Death Of An Old Poet, A Love Affair With A Woman Carrying A Signpost, An Entanglement With A Secretive Poetry Cult, And Plans For A Triumphant Return To The Capital, Through The Theft Of Poems, Illegal War Profits, And Faked Social Media Accounts--plans In Which Our Narrator Discovers He Is Obscurely Implicated. Dead Souls Is A Metaphysical Mystery Brilliantly Encased In A Picaresque Romp, A Novel That Asks A Vital Question For Anyone Who Makes Or Engages With Art: Is Everyone A Plagiarist?