Alice Knott

Alice Knott
First edition
AuthorBlake Butler
PublisherRiverhead Books
Publication placeUnited States
Void Corporation
Paperback and subsequent editions
AuthorBlake Butler
PublisherArchway Editions
Publication placeUnited States

Alice Knott is a 2020 novel by American author Blake Butler.[1] The novel concerns the theft and destruction of a painting collection and its impact on the painting's original owner, the titular Alice Knott.[2]

In 2024 it was re-released in paperback by Archway Editions as Void Corporation.[3]

Development and writing

Butler's earliest inspiration for the book was a note written to himself reading “Corporation that buys and destroys art”.[4] He was further inspired by the Thomas Pynchon novel The Crying of Lot 49.[4]

Reception

In The New York Times, Lauren Wilkinson wrote “There’s an exceptional amount of intention and control on display in the telling of this story. . . . Don’t expect a conventional reading experience. Alice Knott is a meditation on art and perception whose form seems to serve as both a meta-comment on the function of the novel, and a challenge to the expectations that a reader should bring to one. It’s rare for me to enjoy and value a book on those terms, but this one worked for me. And even more to the point, I respected it for insisting that I rise to its challenge.”[1]

In Los Angeles Review of Books, John Domini wrote that the "constant worrying at what’s genuinely personal, struggling to detach it from the endless play of light across wall and screen, strikes me as an undeniably contemporary project.”[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Wilkinson, Lauren (July 24, 2020). "Bring Your Flamethrower. In This Novel, Art Feels the Burn". The New York Times. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  2. ^ a b Domini, John (August 1, 2020). "Undeniably Contemporary: On Blake Butler's "Alice Knott"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  3. ^ "Simon & Schuster".
  4. ^ a b Jones, Shane (July 6, 2020). "An Interview with Blake Butler". Believer Magazine. The Believer. Retrieved December 17, 2020.


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