{"product_id":"an-inventory-of-benevolent-butterflies-9781971973029","title":"An Inventory of Benevolent Butterflies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith the literary mastery of Samuel Beckett and Thomas Bernhard, award-winning author Lance Olsen presents a lyrical imagining of an artist’s solitary, disembodied life, as dreamlike as it is captivating.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the end of his life in 1973, Henry Darger’s mind is a series of recollections: of his decades spent working as a custodian mopping floors at various Chicago hospitals; of his nights writing and making hundreds of collages that would never be seen until after his passing; of the man who was once his lover; of his abuse as a child, at the hands of his father and his boarding school instructors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInformed by the real writings, collages, and other fragments of Darger’s solitary life, \u003ci\u003eAn Inventory of Benevolent Butterflies\u003c\/i\u003e is a project of meticulous research and masterful telling, diving deep into the imagination of a man who wasn’t interested in attention, even less in fame, and created for no one save himself—and to save himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an intense, chimeric first-person, Lance Olsen captures the radical interiority of an artist about whom extraordinarily little is known. Paired with the photo collages of visual artist Andi Olsen, this is a literary scavenger hunt for fans of Mark Z. Danielewski, Lidia Yuknavitch, and José Saramago.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lance Olsen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49074045976827,"sku":"9781971973029","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/an-inventory-of-benevolent-butterflies-9781971973029","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}