Alan Moore's reportedly more than 1M word novel "Jerusalem" coming in 2016

David_D

Those that are interested, start resting your eyes now.

From the NYTimes Artsbeat coverage:

“Jerusalem,” centered on Northampton, England, Mr. Moore’s hometown, will combine historical fiction and fantasy. Mr. Moore has said the novel, which explores, among other subjects, the time-space continuum, is intended to “disprove the existence of death.”

He has also mentioned the varying styles of each chapter: among them, one modeled after a Samuel Beckett play, another written in “a completely invented sub-Joycean text” and another “somewhat in the style of Dos Passos.” The book will include appearances by John Bunyan and Buffalo Bill.

Well. For fans of his writing, that may be an intriguing mountain to climb. I tend to consume a lot of my prose as audiobooks these days. Not sure if it will get released that way. As it is estimated that the prose-to-audiobook translation tends to average 9300 words/hour, that would be an audiobook more than 100 hours long. So maybe instead I will make this my bathroom reading for the rest of my life.