The Pestilence

<p>An anti-novel set at the end of history The Pestilence is a cautionary tale about the threat and dangers of authoritarianism totalitarianism and autocracy as well as an illustration of the lingering effects of colonization: the usurpation and deprivation of autonomy self-reliance and self-determination.</p><p><br></p><p>A man haunted by the memory of his dead wife struggles to begin his day. However things are not so simple. He might be the dead one. He might be the victim he might be the murderer. The mystery deepens as the past and the dead interrupt and disrupt the present and the living as the two struggle for dominance. The dead wife refuses to be forgotten. She tries to come back to life while the man attempts to forget her to have her forgotten to keep her dead. Worse for him the small town in which he lives seems only to reflect his own increasing loss of control as he seems to be losing his mind and his sanity. Is he crazy or is everyone else? Is his wife really dead or is he? Who is the murderer who the victim and perhaps most importantly: why did the murder occur at all?</p><p><br></p><p>Exploring themes of knowledge and power; truth: the invention creation destruction and denial of it; the ever-dynamic play of opposites: yin and yang feminine and masculine light and dark speech and writing The Pestilence is a portrait of the psychological effects of the confrontation and interaction of opposing and conflicting entities often intent on mutual destruction in the pursuit of a new creative form. The form illustrates the process of destruction that must occur for the emergence of the new: whole words are deconstructed into the small words that comprise them eventually forming new wholes representing transcendence and liberation from the old and emergence into the new.</p>