Andrew Hodgson is a British writer, researcher and artist based in Paris. He is the author of two novels, ''Reperfusion'' (2012) and ''Mnemic Symbols'' (2019). He also translated

Roland Topor Roland Topor (7 January 1938 – 16 April 1997) was a French illustrator, cartoonist, comics artist, painter, novelist, playwright, film and TV writer, filmmaker and actor, who was known for the surreal nature of his work. He was of Polish-Jewis ...

's ''Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne'' (2018).

Biography

Hodgson was born in

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and comes from a

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background in the east of the city. He began writing novels at a young age. Hodgson was awarded a

Doctorat A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''li ...

in 2016 for the study of

experimental literature Experimental literature is a genre that is, according to Warren Motte in his essa"Experimental Writing, Experimental Reading" "difficult to define with any sort of precision." He says the "writing is often invoked in an "offhand manner" and the ...

''Aberrant Experiments: Reading Society in the Novel Experiments of Britain and France, 1945-1975''. In the past, he has worked as a Contributing Editor at 3:AM Magazine. As of 2023, he teaches at the

École des hautes études en sciences sociales The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and '' grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The ...

, Paris.

Books

Hodgson's first novel ''Reperfusion'' was released in November 2012. Hodgson has stated that with this book he was "trying to ask what it was that the book becomes when it is being read." His translation of the

novel, ''Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne'' was supported as part of the Burgess Programme of the

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, and appeared with

Atlas Press Atlas Press began publishing in 1983, and specialises in extremist and avant-garde prose writing from the 1890s to the present day. It is the largest publisher in English of books on Surrealism and has an extensive list relating to Dada, Surreal ...

in 2018. His second novel ''Mnemic Symbols'' was published by Dostoyevsky Wannabe in 2019.

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states that through an "almost perfect modelling of quotidian consciousness," the book exposes "some of the more poetic, yet surreal, human thought patterns and ways of dealing with death and mourning." In 2020, Hodgson installed the contents of the group book object ''Praxis'' as a room at Haus Wien Art Fair, Vienna.

Bibliography

Novels

* ''Reperfusion'' (2012), WPS&B * ''Mnemic Symbols'' (2019), Dostoyevsky Wannabe

Critical Studies

* ''The Post-War Experimental Novel'' (2019), Bloomsbury

Art Books

* ''Paris'' (ed.) (2019), Dostoyevsky Wannabe With: Craig Dworkin, Lauren Elkin, Gaia Di Lorenzo, Olivier Salon & Chris Clarke, Yelena Moskovich, Camille Bloomfield, Stewart Home, Amalie Brandt, Ian Monk, Andrew Gallix, Eric Giraudet De Boudemange, Andrew Hodgson, Philipp Timischl. * ''Praxis'' (ed.) (2021), Dostoyevsky Wannabe With: Emily Critchley, Imogen Reid, Derek Beaulieu, Andrew Hodgson, Sawako Nakayasu, Outranspo, Bhanu Kapil, Guy Bennett, Spencer Thomas Campbell, Joanna Walsh, Jake Kennedy, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Eley Williams, Kevin McPherson Eckhoff, Isabel Waidner, Shola von Reinhold, Robert Kiely, Chris Clarke, Shane Jesse Christmass, Kimberly Campanello, Rosie Šnajdr, and Roy Claire Potter. * ''A I S T I T – coming to our senses'' (ed.) (2021), Garret Publications * ''New Forms of Art and Contagious Mental Illness'' (2023), New Documents

Translations

* Roland Topor, ''Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne'' (2018), Atlas Press * Pierre MacOrlan, Raymond Queneau, François Caradec, ''LIP Journal 22'' (2021), Atlas Press

References

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