Purgatory, Volume 2

The Trash Project: Towards The Decay Of Meaning

Ken Hollings

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Strange Attractor Press
10 January 2023

Films, movies & cinema; Television

A series of essays modeled on the Purgatory of Dante Alighieri-personal reflections, historical incidents, and unexpected mythological correspondences.

A series of essays modeled on the Purgatory of Dante Alighieri-personal reflections, historical incidents, and unexpected mythological correspondences.

""The obsession with Beauty and Virtue must inevitably bring Trash into existence. Trash offers a way of lifting their curse; it marks the end of all such fatal enchantments.""

In this sequel to 2020's Inferno, Hollings shifts his attention away from America in the Age of Pop to take a close look at European decadence and decay at the end of the nineteenth century. Purgatory follows the twin fates of Hallward and Hancock as they are drawn, like so many artists before them, towards the city of Paris. It was here that exiled Swedish playwright August Strindberg struggled to turn iron and carbon into gold, while the aesthete S r Peladan staged his sumptuous Salons de la Rose+Croix. Over a series of thirty-three essays directly modeled on the Purgatory of Dante Alighieri, personal reflections, historical incidents, and unexpected mythological correspondences are combined to uncover a restless underground labyrinth of alchemists, poets, painters, and philosophers. Together, their combined influence would shape not only the events of May '68 but the emergence of a uniquely European form of Trash cinema devoted exclusively to beauty, sex, and despair.

To celebrate the 700th anniversary of Dante's death, Ken Hollings offers the reader a radical retelling of the middle part of the Divine Comedy. Hell may be a tough act to follow-but, as Volume Two of the Trash Project reveals, Purgatory can be just as weird and dangerous.

By: Ken Hollings
Imprint: Strange Attractor Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 146mm,
ISBN: 9781913689230
ISBN 10: 1913689239
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 10 January 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ken Hollings is a writer, broadcaster, and cultural theorist based in London and the author of Welcome to Mars and The Bright Labyrinth.