Your Name Here
Helen DeWitt author Ilya Gridneff author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press
Publishing:6th Nov '25
£18.99
This title is due to be published on 6th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The Last Samurai), and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff.
A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together America’s “War on Terror,” countless years of literary history, authorial sleight of hand, Scientology, dream analysis, multiple languages, emails, images, graphs, into something wondrous and unique.
A metafictional Pygmalion story reminiscent of Charlie Kaufman‘s Oscar-nominated Adaptation, or Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler; Your Name Here is a rare work of art that captures the process of becoming itself. A reminder that a masterpiece and a doomed voyage look the same at the start.
“An ouroboros—and a big one at that—of a postmodern yarn that threatens to swallow itself at any moment… At once bewildering and beguiling, and a groaning-table feast of words.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Although the book may appear, to begin with, to be plotless, it turns out to be tightly organized: a Godard-like enfilade of shaftings, a frontispiece-of-Leviathan-type portrait of the world as a great ‘Biz’ made up of millions of little bizzes… Your Name Here is a novel that doesn’t really believe in novels. The writing is delightfully shameless, disheveled and dissolute; globalized and pornified and digitized somehow, bit after bit after bit.” —The London Review of Books
“Peerless.” —Lauren Oyler, author of Fake Accounts
“An important and complicated work of art.” —n+1
ISBN: 9781628976267
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
600 pages