The law is an accumulation of tireless attempts to block a man's desire to change life into an instant of poetry. Certainly it would not be right to let everybody exchange his life for a line of poetry written with a splash of blood. But the mass of men, lacking valor, pass away their lives without ever feeling the least touch of such a desire.
(Runaway Horses, Yukio Mishima)
(Runaway Horses, Yukio Mishima)
Not all legal advice is equally qualified!!! A young man, seeking to relieve the shame of his chronic unemployment, falls in with a group of legal impersonators. Meanwhile, much overpriced alcohol is consumed in the hostess clubs of Kabukicho. When will the excessive drinking stop, and what is the significance of ‘the fake paralegal’? These and other questions will be answered in the pages of this short novel by Justin Isis—written with the anatomical precision and sociological scope.
This is the superb Justin Isis new novel, Fake Ass Lawyers, produced by Raphus Press in a very limited edition. A record of existential emptying in the middle of the dense forest of signs – the contemporary Japanese society –, this exquisite Neodecadent novel must be sipped slowly, so that the perception of the ominous fate of human society at the height of its supposed organization carefully involves the reader's perception as a dizzying vertigo.
Fake Ass Lawyers, a novel by Justin Isis. This is a lost version of the original book, an exquisite object as well (format: 5.9 × 7.87 in.), 98 pages, with a exclusive, painfully handcrafted Japanese binding style, designed at Raphus Press Immanent Headquarters and assembled/printed by Phonte88 (originally it was be at Sol Negro printshop) with a colorful and wonderful frontispiece. Only 20 copies, designated with letters (to differentiate from original version) plus some (very few) private copies. Only US$ 50.00 (mail expenses for all the world included). Expected to be sent in 45 days. Some copies, as well, would be available at our partners, Ziesings Books.
This is the superb Justin Isis new novel, Fake Ass Lawyers, produced by Raphus Press in a very limited edition. A record of existential emptying in the middle of the dense forest of signs – the contemporary Japanese society –, this exquisite Neodecadent novel must be sipped slowly, so that the perception of the ominous fate of human society at the height of its supposed organization carefully involves the reader's perception as a dizzying vertigo.
Fake Ass Lawyers, a novel by Justin Isis. This is a lost version of the original book, an exquisite object as well (format: 5.9 × 7.87 in.), 98 pages, with a exclusive, painfully handcrafted Japanese binding style, designed at Raphus Press Immanent Headquarters and assembled/printed by Phonte88 (originally it was be at Sol Negro printshop) with a colorful and wonderful frontispiece. Only 20 copies, designated with letters (to differentiate from original version) plus some (very few) private copies. Only US$ 50.00 (mail expenses for all the world included). Expected to be sent in 45 days. Some copies, as well, would be available at our partners, Ziesings Books.
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