The Avant Postman explores a broad range of innovative postwar writing in France Britain and the United States Taking James Joyce’s revolution of the word in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as a joint starting point David Vichnar draws genealogical lines through the work of more than fifty writers up to the present including Alain Robbe Grillet B S Johnson William Burroughs Christine Brooke Rose Georges Perec Kathy Acker Iain Sinclair Hélene Cixous Alan Moore David Foster Wallace and many others Centering the exploration around five writing strategies employed by Joyce—narrative parallax stylistic metempsychosis concrete writing forgery and neologising the logos—the book reveals the striking continuities and developments from Joyce’s day to our own
