AMKent books

This will be slightly more in-depth than the previous post regarding my new book, and more so concerning ‘The Man’ and his section of the story. My primary inspirations for the layout and story progression were Dante’s Divine Comedy and the Genesis portion of the bible. The portion of the story where the man inherits the parasite, moving it along the void (the evilest acts of man) was inspired by Dante and Virgil’s descent through hell in the work ‘Inferno’. Hell is a theme in the book, not just as a parallel to the atrocities during the final war, but also in the social conditioning of the man and his own ‘void’. The man is heavily influenced by hell, and this influence had turned him into an immoral killer, which later he justifies through his deformed idea of philosophy to the cosmic parasite. Whilst the parasite indulges the man, it was important that the man did not just sound ‘crazy and without reason’. I wanted him to display a worryingly deep understanding of existence, so that despite his internal void, it was hard to dismiss him. Ultimately, the man was a reflection of both the highest consequences of the pinnacle of understanding ones own existence, and the indulgence of primal pleasures that entirely contradict such understanding. He was presented as a kind of ethical juxtaposition, only reconsidering this rational choice between the void and the civilised when he finds out he has an important role to play.

The culmination of the mans journey results in him arguing against the wheel of human consensus, a large wheel of naked bodies that interrogates him. This was a culmination of many things, however, I enjoyed the idea of an abstract version of the Sphinx riddling Oedipus in the book ‘Oedipus Rex’ by Sophocles. The man also engages in a wrestling match with ‘The True Human’, an idealised non-binary human that greatly resembles Christian God, this scene is a direct reference to Jacob vs God (or his angel) in Genesis. This is also the image used on the front cover also. The man is a complex character, in many ways he is supposed to be overly complex, as he is a the tour guide through ‘the void’. He sums himself up in a double entendre early on, with the quote “A singularity only manifests through the collapse of something magnificently violent”.

Here is a link to the book directly: http://mybook.to/VAS

You can also find it on my website home page (at the bottom) along with on Amazon worldwide