As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North...
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07.06.21 —
'Passing Time'
Michel Butor [trans. Jean Stewart]
a-format softcover
Ed.: Jonny Walsh & Cath Annabel
Cover Art: Steven Cherry
Typesetting: Alex Billington
Distro.: Compass/Central
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'Passing Time' is a re-edited (over lockdown) and re-published edition of the original English translation of Michel Butor's 1956 psychohistorical odyssey: 'L'emploi du temps' (Faber, 1960). Butor was a teaching assistant
@officialuom 1951-52, living in Whalley Range & Burnage.
Jacques Revel, economic migrant, arrives in Bleston — a thinly disguised & misremembered Manchester. We follow his diary & subsequent mental deterioration as the sooty atmosphere & architecture closes in, while mysterious fires erupt throughout the city. Can he solve the puzzle of 'The Bleston Murder' & free himself from the labyrinth of his mind!?
We accurately billed 'Passing Time' as the great, forgotten Manchester novel. Lee Rourke even called it 'the greatest Manchester novel ever written'. A truly polyvalent, hyperstitional and disquieting work wether you're familiar with Manchester or not. Nevertheless, coverage was difficult in the provinces & nationally — the book was probably the very last thing people wanted to read after quarantine.
@thebafflermag & The Modern Novel did review thoughtfully. But again, our wonderful reps got us zero retail sales within the city — and to this day we sell more copies in the US than in Manchester.
.
.
Thanks to
@annabel5637 for all her hard work in the edit... check out her Passing Time blog for further insight into the novel, and to David Bellos (RIP) who stated that he would teach the new edition on his course at Princeton Uni, hurrah.
We began excerpting the work, daily (automated initially) over on Twitter (ButorTime), but ceased when the site became a fash hellscape — Butor himself had witnessed Paris occupied by the Nazis as a child. A start was made on an interactive map. Such things fall apart, unfortunately.
We still haven't had a launch event.
#Books
#NouveauRoman
#FrenchLiterature
![As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North.....07.06.21 —'Passing Time'Michel Butor [trans. Jean Stewart]a-format softcoverEd.: Jonny Walsh & Cath AnnabelCover Art: Steven CherryTypesetting: Alex BillingtonDistro.: Compass/Central..'Passing Time' is a re-edited (over lockdown) and re-published edition of the original English translation of Michel Butor's 1956 psychohistorical odyssey: 'L'emploi du temps' (Faber, 1960). Butor was a teaching assistant @officialuom 1951-52, living in Whalley Range & Burnage.Jacques Revel, economic migrant, arrives in Bleston — a thinly disguised & misremembered Manchester. We follow his diary & subsequent mental deterioration as the sooty atmosphere & architecture closes in, while mysterious fires erupt throughout the city. Can he solve the puzzle of 'The Bleston Murder' & free himself from the labyrinth of his mind!?We accurately billed 'Passing Time' as the great, forgotten Manchester novel. Lee Rourke even called it 'the greatest Manchester novel ever written'. A truly polyvalent, hyperstitional and disquieting work wether you're familiar with Manchester or not. Nevertheless, coverage was difficult in the provinces & nationally — the book was probably the very last thing people wanted to read after quarantine. @thebafflermag & The Modern Novel did review thoughtfully. But again, our wonderful reps got us zero retail sales within the city — and to this day we sell more copies in the US than in Manchester...Thanks to @annabel5637 for all her hard work in the edit... check out her Passing Time blog for further insight into the novel, and to David Bellos (RIP) who stated that he would teach the new edition on his course at Princeton Uni, hurrah.We began excerpting the work, daily (automated initially) over on Twitter (ButorTime), but ceased when the site became a fash hellscape — Butor himself had witnessed Paris occupied by the Nazis as a child. A start was made on an interactive map. Such things fall apart, unfortunately.We still haven't had a launch event.#Books#NouveauRoman#FrenchLiterature](https://scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/615699511_18529390900069783_6487993374128563302_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15_tt6&_nc_ht=scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2gFMvqapHQFgfAIlSeoeKIPbdWneGYWw5mJKgUrSyLgGHM_ODAOV4WYyg9r-CFZ3mgk3T8zn38LTNvAL207ydUs_&_nc_ohc=6nCQEKaETL8Q7kNvwGX_DNl&_nc_gid=Odm4t8wbfikPfNOJgR3J-w&edm=ANTKIIoBAAAA&ccb=7-5&oh=00_Af4Oz2GRdzYGXlaiUuxwKUkmxHKaKB-vAdL5lIWNuqKcDA&oe=6A11800C&_nc_sid=d885a2)
![As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North.....07.06.21 —'Passing Time'Michel Butor [trans. Jean Stewart]a-format softcoverEd.: Jonny Walsh & Cath AnnabelCover Art: Steven CherryTypesetting: Alex BillingtonDistro.: Compass/Central..'Passing Time' is a re-edited (over lockdown) and re-published edition of the original English translation of Michel Butor's 1956 psychohistorical odyssey: 'L'emploi du temps' (Faber, 1960). Butor was a teaching assistant @officialuom 1951-52, living in Whalley Range & Burnage.Jacques Revel, economic migrant, arrives in Bleston — a thinly disguised & misremembered Manchester. We follow his diary & subsequent mental deterioration as the sooty atmosphere & architecture closes in, while mysterious fires erupt throughout the city. Can he solve the puzzle of 'The Bleston Murder' & free himself from the labyrinth of his mind!?We accurately billed 'Passing Time' as the great, forgotten Manchester novel. Lee Rourke even called it 'the greatest Manchester novel ever written'. A truly polyvalent, hyperstitional and disquieting work wether you're familiar with Manchester or not. Nevertheless, coverage was difficult in the provinces & nationally — the book was probably the very last thing people wanted to read after quarantine. @thebafflermag & The Modern Novel did review thoughtfully. But again, our wonderful reps got us zero retail sales within the city — and to this day we sell more copies in the US than in Manchester...Thanks to @annabel5637 for all her hard work in the edit... check out her Passing Time blog for further insight into the novel, and to David Bellos (RIP) who stated that he would teach the new edition on his course at Princeton Uni, hurrah.We began excerpting the work, daily (automated initially) over on Twitter (ButorTime), but ceased when the site became a fash hellscape — Butor himself had witnessed Paris occupied by the Nazis as a child. A start was made on an interactive map. Such things fall apart, unfortunately.We still haven't had a launch event.#Books#NouveauRoman#FrenchLiterature](https://scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/615249880_18529390924069783_8750936112531712593_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15_tt6&_nc_ht=scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2gFMvqapHQFgfAIlSeoeKIPbdWneGYWw5mJKgUrSyLgGHM_ODAOV4WYyg9r-CFZ3mgk3T8zn38LTNvAL207ydUs_&_nc_ohc=JCwBrSxp7n0Q7kNvwGnlI9m&_nc_gid=Odm4t8wbfikPfNOJgR3J-w&edm=ANTKIIoBAAAA&ccb=7-5&oh=00_Af61PkKVdnk3iq81vkqio82z5oj2VIl3KWxaOhrGBQNfww&oe=6A118209&_nc_sid=d885a2)
![As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North.....07.06.21 —'Passing Time'Michel Butor [trans. Jean Stewart]a-format softcoverEd.: Jonny Walsh & Cath AnnabelCover Art: Steven CherryTypesetting: Alex BillingtonDistro.: Compass/Central..'Passing Time' is a re-edited (over lockdown) and re-published edition of the original English translation of Michel Butor's 1956 psychohistorical odyssey: 'L'emploi du temps' (Faber, 1960). Butor was a teaching assistant @officialuom 1951-52, living in Whalley Range & Burnage.Jacques Revel, economic migrant, arrives in Bleston — a thinly disguised & misremembered Manchester. We follow his diary & subsequent mental deterioration as the sooty atmosphere & architecture closes in, while mysterious fires erupt throughout the city. Can he solve the puzzle of 'The Bleston Murder' & free himself from the labyrinth of his mind!?We accurately billed 'Passing Time' as the great, forgotten Manchester novel. Lee Rourke even called it 'the greatest Manchester novel ever written'. A truly polyvalent, hyperstitional and disquieting work wether you're familiar with Manchester or not. Nevertheless, coverage was difficult in the provinces & nationally — the book was probably the very last thing people wanted to read after quarantine. @thebafflermag & The Modern Novel did review thoughtfully. But again, our wonderful reps got us zero retail sales within the city — and to this day we sell more copies in the US than in Manchester...Thanks to @annabel5637 for all her hard work in the edit... check out her Passing Time blog for further insight into the novel, and to David Bellos (RIP) who stated that he would teach the new edition on his course at Princeton Uni, hurrah.We began excerpting the work, daily (automated initially) over on Twitter (ButorTime), but ceased when the site became a fash hellscape — Butor himself had witnessed Paris occupied by the Nazis as a child. A start was made on an interactive map. Such things fall apart, unfortunately.We still haven't had a launch event.#Books#NouveauRoman#FrenchLiterature](https://scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/615176644_18529390912069783_549675251836603541_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15_tt6&_nc_ht=scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2gFMvqapHQFgfAIlSeoeKIPbdWneGYWw5mJKgUrSyLgGHM_ODAOV4WYyg9r-CFZ3mgk3T8zn38LTNvAL207ydUs_&_nc_ohc=QBD0-jx93_cQ7kNvwHhYB7j&_nc_gid=Odm4t8wbfikPfNOJgR3J-w&edm=ANTKIIoBAAAA&ccb=7-5&oh=00_Af7kTsZ9LolDj__662E9U8f0jH_YdNojxjsEqG_Q1s71ng&oe=6A117B32&_nc_sid=d885a2)
![As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North.....07.06.21 —'Passing Time'Michel Butor [trans. Jean Stewart]a-format softcoverEd.: Jonny Walsh & Cath AnnabelCover Art: Steven CherryTypesetting: Alex BillingtonDistro.: Compass/Central..'Passing Time' is a re-edited (over lockdown) and re-published edition of the original English translation of Michel Butor's 1956 psychohistorical odyssey: 'L'emploi du temps' (Faber, 1960). Butor was a teaching assistant @officialuom 1951-52, living in Whalley Range & Burnage.Jacques Revel, economic migrant, arrives in Bleston — a thinly disguised & misremembered Manchester. We follow his diary & subsequent mental deterioration as the sooty atmosphere & architecture closes in, while mysterious fires erupt throughout the city. Can he solve the puzzle of 'The Bleston Murder' & free himself from the labyrinth of his mind!?We accurately billed 'Passing Time' as the great, forgotten Manchester novel. Lee Rourke even called it 'the greatest Manchester novel ever written'. A truly polyvalent, hyperstitional and disquieting work wether you're familiar with Manchester or not. Nevertheless, coverage was difficult in the provinces & nationally — the book was probably the very last thing people wanted to read after quarantine. @thebafflermag & The Modern Novel did review thoughtfully. But again, our wonderful reps got us zero retail sales within the city — and to this day we sell more copies in the US than in Manchester...Thanks to @annabel5637 for all her hard work in the edit... check out her Passing Time blog for further insight into the novel, and to David Bellos (RIP) who stated that he would teach the new edition on his course at Princeton Uni, hurrah.We began excerpting the work, daily (automated initially) over on Twitter (ButorTime), but ceased when the site became a fash hellscape — Butor himself had witnessed Paris occupied by the Nazis as a child. A start was made on an interactive map. Such things fall apart, unfortunately.We still haven't had a launch event.#Books#NouveauRoman#FrenchLiterature](https://scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/615241309_18529390999069783_8113917576647373682_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_s1080x1080_sh2.08_tt6&_nc_ht=scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2gFMvqapHQFgfAIlSeoeKIPbdWneGYWw5mJKgUrSyLgGHM_ODAOV4WYyg9r-CFZ3mgk3T8zn38LTNvAL207ydUs_&_nc_ohc=LYnv9B0DWHAQ7kNvwHZ3rNU&_nc_gid=Odm4t8wbfikPfNOJgR3J-w&edm=ANTKIIoBAAAA&ccb=7-5&oh=00_Af6F7QgtYj9M2kJqOEp5LCxHlYTBfijpyoDlZS6VjHkmrA&oe=6A115E08&_nc_sid=d885a2)
![As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North.....07.06.21 —'Passing Time'Michel Butor [trans. Jean Stewart]a-format softcoverEd.: Jonny Walsh & Cath AnnabelCover Art: Steven CherryTypesetting: Alex BillingtonDistro.: Compass/Central..'Passing Time' is a re-edited (over lockdown) and re-published edition of the original English translation of Michel Butor's 1956 psychohistorical odyssey: 'L'emploi du temps' (Faber, 1960). Butor was a teaching assistant @officialuom 1951-52, living in Whalley Range & Burnage.Jacques Revel, economic migrant, arrives in Bleston — a thinly disguised & misremembered Manchester. We follow his diary & subsequent mental deterioration as the sooty atmosphere & architecture closes in, while mysterious fires erupt throughout the city. Can he solve the puzzle of 'The Bleston Murder' & free himself from the labyrinth of his mind!?We accurately billed 'Passing Time' as the great, forgotten Manchester novel. Lee Rourke even called it 'the greatest Manchester novel ever written'. A truly polyvalent, hyperstitional and disquieting work wether you're familiar with Manchester or not. Nevertheless, coverage was difficult in the provinces & nationally — the book was probably the very last thing people wanted to read after quarantine. @thebafflermag & The Modern Novel did review thoughtfully. But again, our wonderful reps got us zero retail sales within the city — and to this day we sell more copies in the US than in Manchester...Thanks to @annabel5637 for all her hard work in the edit... check out her Passing Time blog for further insight into the novel, and to David Bellos (RIP) who stated that he would teach the new edition on his course at Princeton Uni, hurrah.We began excerpting the work, daily (automated initially) over on Twitter (ButorTime), but ceased when the site became a fash hellscape — Butor himself had witnessed Paris occupied by the Nazis as a child. A start was made on an interactive map. Such things fall apart, unfortunately.We still haven't had a launch event.#Books#NouveauRoman#FrenchLiterature](https://scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/615327079_18529390951069783_6353527728004192357_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15_tt6&_nc_ht=scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2gFMvqapHQFgfAIlSeoeKIPbdWneGYWw5mJKgUrSyLgGHM_ODAOV4WYyg9r-CFZ3mgk3T8zn38LTNvAL207ydUs_&_nc_ohc=rI0V3MdliPsQ7kNvwEXNriR&_nc_gid=Odm4t8wbfikPfNOJgR3J-w&edm=ANTKIIoBAAAA&ccb=7-5&oh=00_Af4h-w2nt_gsSkLMVlpBdyp29rJlyuPAqtuW3Zl-tWuIHA&oe=6A118D67&_nc_sid=d885a2)
![As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North.....07.06.21 —'Passing Time'Michel Butor [trans. Jean Stewart]a-format softcoverEd.: Jonny Walsh & Cath AnnabelCover Art: Steven CherryTypesetting: Alex BillingtonDistro.: Compass/Central..'Passing Time' is a re-edited (over lockdown) and re-published edition of the original English translation of Michel Butor's 1956 psychohistorical odyssey: 'L'emploi du temps' (Faber, 1960). Butor was a teaching assistant @officialuom 1951-52, living in Whalley Range & Burnage.Jacques Revel, economic migrant, arrives in Bleston — a thinly disguised & misremembered Manchester. We follow his diary & subsequent mental deterioration as the sooty atmosphere & architecture closes in, while mysterious fires erupt throughout the city. Can he solve the puzzle of 'The Bleston Murder' & free himself from the labyrinth of his mind!?We accurately billed 'Passing Time' as the great, forgotten Manchester novel. Lee Rourke even called it 'the greatest Manchester novel ever written'. A truly polyvalent, hyperstitional and disquieting work wether you're familiar with Manchester or not. Nevertheless, coverage was difficult in the provinces & nationally — the book was probably the very last thing people wanted to read after quarantine. @thebafflermag & The Modern Novel did review thoughtfully. But again, our wonderful reps got us zero retail sales within the city — and to this day we sell more copies in the US than in Manchester...Thanks to @annabel5637 for all her hard work in the edit... check out her Passing Time blog for further insight into the novel, and to David Bellos (RIP) who stated that he would teach the new edition on his course at Princeton Uni, hurrah.We began excerpting the work, daily (automated initially) over on Twitter (ButorTime), but ceased when the site became a fash hellscape — Butor himself had witnessed Paris occupied by the Nazis as a child. A start was made on an interactive map. Such things fall apart, unfortunately.We still haven't had a launch event.#Books#NouveauRoman#FrenchLiterature](https://scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/615906735_18529391152069783_6592224203919274101_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_s1080x1080_sh2.08_tt6&_nc_ht=scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2gFMvqapHQFgfAIlSeoeKIPbdWneGYWw5mJKgUrSyLgGHM_ODAOV4WYyg9r-CFZ3mgk3T8zn38LTNvAL207ydUs_&_nc_ohc=VR5z7zJLsLoQ7kNvwELMovr&_nc_gid=Odm4t8wbfikPfNOJgR3J-w&edm=ANTKIIoBAAAA&ccb=7-5&oh=00_Af6CUi9MGvv1xS4sTsE5D0XfZKY3VSZeHHquI6AxrrTSNg&oe=6A116312&_nc_sid=d885a2)
![As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North.....07.06.21 —'Passing Time'Michel Butor [trans. Jean Stewart]a-format softcoverEd.: Jonny Walsh & Cath AnnabelCover Art: Steven CherryTypesetting: Alex BillingtonDistro.: Compass/Central..'Passing Time' is a re-edited (over lockdown) and re-published edition of the original English translation of Michel Butor's 1956 psychohistorical odyssey: 'L'emploi du temps' (Faber, 1960). Butor was a teaching assistant @officialuom 1951-52, living in Whalley Range & Burnage.Jacques Revel, economic migrant, arrives in Bleston — a thinly disguised & misremembered Manchester. We follow his diary & subsequent mental deterioration as the sooty atmosphere & architecture closes in, while mysterious fires erupt throughout the city. Can he solve the puzzle of 'The Bleston Murder' & free himself from the labyrinth of his mind!?We accurately billed 'Passing Time' as the great, forgotten Manchester novel. Lee Rourke even called it 'the greatest Manchester novel ever written'. A truly polyvalent, hyperstitional and disquieting work wether you're familiar with Manchester or not. Nevertheless, coverage was difficult in the provinces & nationally — the book was probably the very last thing people wanted to read after quarantine. @thebafflermag & The Modern Novel did review thoughtfully. But again, our wonderful reps got us zero retail sales within the city — and to this day we sell more copies in the US than in Manchester...Thanks to @annabel5637 for all her hard work in the edit... check out her Passing Time blog for further insight into the novel, and to David Bellos (RIP) who stated that he would teach the new edition on his course at Princeton Uni, hurrah.We began excerpting the work, daily (automated initially) over on Twitter (ButorTime), but ceased when the site became a fash hellscape — Butor himself had witnessed Paris occupied by the Nazis as a child. A start was made on an interactive map. Such things fall apart, unfortunately.We still haven't had a launch event.#Books#NouveauRoman#FrenchLiterature](https://scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/615237939_18529390978069783_7361328364825592569_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_s1080x1080_sh2.08_tt6&_nc_ht=scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2gFMvqapHQFgfAIlSeoeKIPbdWneGYWw5mJKgUrSyLgGHM_ODAOV4WYyg9r-CFZ3mgk3T8zn38LTNvAL207ydUs_&_nc_ohc=q1jUnF24GPcQ7kNvwE99mlO&_nc_gid=Odm4t8wbfikPfNOJgR3J-w&edm=ANTKIIoBAAAA&ccb=7-5&oh=00_Af6G8HptqyPY2PIXub0a0FSL3adT0nYJhomLH336ls8bIQ&oe=6A116C5F&_nc_sid=d885a2)
![As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North.....07.06.21 —'Passing Time'Michel Butor [trans. Jean Stewart]a-format softcoverEd.: Jonny Walsh & Cath AnnabelCover Art: Steven CherryTypesetting: Alex BillingtonDistro.: Compass/Central..'Passing Time' is a re-edited (over lockdown) and re-published edition of the original English translation of Michel Butor's 1956 psychohistorical odyssey: 'L'emploi du temps' (Faber, 1960). Butor was a teaching assistant @officialuom 1951-52, living in Whalley Range & Burnage.Jacques Revel, economic migrant, arrives in Bleston — a thinly disguised & misremembered Manchester. We follow his diary & subsequent mental deterioration as the sooty atmosphere & architecture closes in, while mysterious fires erupt throughout the city. Can he solve the puzzle of 'The Bleston Murder' & free himself from the labyrinth of his mind!?We accurately billed 'Passing Time' as the great, forgotten Manchester novel. Lee Rourke even called it 'the greatest Manchester novel ever written'. A truly polyvalent, hyperstitional and disquieting work wether you're familiar with Manchester or not. Nevertheless, coverage was difficult in the provinces & nationally — the book was probably the very last thing people wanted to read after quarantine. @thebafflermag & The Modern Novel did review thoughtfully. But again, our wonderful reps got us zero retail sales within the city — and to this day we sell more copies in the US than in Manchester...Thanks to @annabel5637 for all her hard work in the edit... check out her Passing Time blog for further insight into the novel, and to David Bellos (RIP) who stated that he would teach the new edition on his course at Princeton Uni, hurrah.We began excerpting the work, daily (automated initially) over on Twitter (ButorTime), but ceased when the site became a fash hellscape — Butor himself had witnessed Paris occupied by the Nazis as a child. A start was made on an interactive map. Such things fall apart, unfortunately.We still haven't had a launch event.#Books#NouveauRoman#FrenchLiterature](https://scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/615162257_18529390960069783_7602811592827164026_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15_tt6&_nc_ht=scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2gFMvqapHQFgfAIlSeoeKIPbdWneGYWw5mJKgUrSyLgGHM_ODAOV4WYyg9r-CFZ3mgk3T8zn38LTNvAL207ydUs_&_nc_ohc=wsIb3QSDDbAQ7kNvwETs3L5&_nc_gid=Odm4t8wbfikPfNOJgR3J-w&edm=ANTKIIoBAAAA&ccb=7-5&oh=00_Af44ZikC1o91IA97Rktmc4WygDYcO-sgD9VV3k2WQXuxXA&oe=6A1187AE&_nc_sid=d885a2)
![As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North.....07.06.21 —'Passing Time'Michel Butor [trans. Jean Stewart]a-format softcoverEd.: Jonny Walsh & Cath AnnabelCover Art: Steven CherryTypesetting: Alex BillingtonDistro.: Compass/Central..'Passing Time' is a re-edited (over lockdown) and re-published edition of the original English translation of Michel Butor's 1956 psychohistorical odyssey: 'L'emploi du temps' (Faber, 1960). Butor was a teaching assistant @officialuom 1951-52, living in Whalley Range & Burnage.Jacques Revel, economic migrant, arrives in Bleston — a thinly disguised & misremembered Manchester. We follow his diary & subsequent mental deterioration as the sooty atmosphere & architecture closes in, while mysterious fires erupt throughout the city. Can he solve the puzzle of 'The Bleston Murder' & free himself from the labyrinth of his mind!?We accurately billed 'Passing Time' as the great, forgotten Manchester novel. Lee Rourke even called it 'the greatest Manchester novel ever written'. A truly polyvalent, hyperstitional and disquieting work wether you're familiar with Manchester or not. Nevertheless, coverage was difficult in the provinces & nationally — the book was probably the very last thing people wanted to read after quarantine. @thebafflermag & The Modern Novel did review thoughtfully. But again, our wonderful reps got us zero retail sales within the city — and to this day we sell more copies in the US than in Manchester...Thanks to @annabel5637 for all her hard work in the edit... check out her Passing Time blog for further insight into the novel, and to David Bellos (RIP) who stated that he would teach the new edition on his course at Princeton Uni, hurrah.We began excerpting the work, daily (automated initially) over on Twitter (ButorTime), but ceased when the site became a fash hellscape — Butor himself had witnessed Paris occupied by the Nazis as a child. A start was made on an interactive map. Such things fall apart, unfortunately.We still haven't had a launch event.#Books#NouveauRoman#FrenchLiterature](https://scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/615826767_18529390933069783_7469756068760693345_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15_tt6&_nc_ht=scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2gFMvqapHQFgfAIlSeoeKIPbdWneGYWw5mJKgUrSyLgGHM_ODAOV4WYyg9r-CFZ3mgk3T8zn38LTNvAL207ydUs_&_nc_ohc=fL0uLgl_9pYQ7kNvwHRnOs2&_nc_gid=Odm4t8wbfikPfNOJgR3J-w&edm=ANTKIIoBAAAA&ccb=7-5&oh=00_Af6V7fPsDlfy3YM6n_1BuEKhl1IP0bV1ibzEYBt6tdkh6w&oe=6A116FB6&_nc_sid=d885a2)
![As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North.....07.06.21 —'Passing Time'Michel Butor [trans. Jean Stewart]a-format softcoverEd.: Jonny Walsh & Cath AnnabelCover Art: Steven CherryTypesetting: Alex BillingtonDistro.: Compass/Central..'Passing Time' is a re-edited (over lockdown) and re-published edition of the original English translation of Michel Butor's 1956 psychohistorical odyssey: 'L'emploi du temps' (Faber, 1960). Butor was a teaching assistant @officialuom 1951-52, living in Whalley Range & Burnage.Jacques Revel, economic migrant, arrives in Bleston — a thinly disguised & misremembered Manchester. We follow his diary & subsequent mental deterioration as the sooty atmosphere & architecture closes in, while mysterious fires erupt throughout the city. Can he solve the puzzle of 'The Bleston Murder' & free himself from the labyrinth of his mind!?We accurately billed 'Passing Time' as the great, forgotten Manchester novel. Lee Rourke even called it 'the greatest Manchester novel ever written'. A truly polyvalent, hyperstitional and disquieting work wether you're familiar with Manchester or not. Nevertheless, coverage was difficult in the provinces & nationally — the book was probably the very last thing people wanted to read after quarantine. @thebafflermag & The Modern Novel did review thoughtfully. But again, our wonderful reps got us zero retail sales within the city — and to this day we sell more copies in the US than in Manchester...Thanks to @annabel5637 for all her hard work in the edit... check out her Passing Time blog for further insight into the novel, and to David Bellos (RIP) who stated that he would teach the new edition on his course at Princeton Uni, hurrah.We began excerpting the work, daily (automated initially) over on Twitter (ButorTime), but ceased when the site became a fash hellscape — Butor himself had witnessed Paris occupied by the Nazis as a child. A start was made on an interactive map. Such things fall apart, unfortunately.We still haven't had a launch event.#Books#NouveauRoman#FrenchLiterature](https://scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/615287834_18529390969069783_5653149153098672048_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_s1080x1080_sh2.08_tt6&_nc_ht=scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2gFMvqapHQFgfAIlSeoeKIPbdWneGYWw5mJKgUrSyLgGHM_ODAOV4WYyg9r-CFZ3mgk3T8zn38LTNvAL207ydUs_&_nc_ohc=jEKjlY_-GX0Q7kNvwFTP6zm&_nc_gid=Odm4t8wbfikPfNOJgR3J-w&edm=ANTKIIoBAAAA&ccb=7-5&oh=00_Af6XBP-SFgWV40WvMTz_pYpKO2vMNcEZ2RHKG_po_ojf_A&oe=6A116B33&_nc_sid=d885a2)
![As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North.....07.06.21 —'Passing Time'Michel Butor [trans. Jean Stewart]a-format softcoverEd.: Jonny Walsh & Cath AnnabelCover Art: Steven CherryTypesetting: Alex BillingtonDistro.: Compass/Central..'Passing Time' is a re-edited (over lockdown) and re-published edition of the original English translation of Michel Butor's 1956 psychohistorical odyssey: 'L'emploi du temps' (Faber, 1960). Butor was a teaching assistant @officialuom 1951-52, living in Whalley Range & Burnage.Jacques Revel, economic migrant, arrives in Bleston — a thinly disguised & misremembered Manchester. We follow his diary & subsequent mental deterioration as the sooty atmosphere & architecture closes in, while mysterious fires erupt throughout the city. Can he solve the puzzle of 'The Bleston Murder' & free himself from the labyrinth of his mind!?We accurately billed 'Passing Time' as the great, forgotten Manchester novel. Lee Rourke even called it 'the greatest Manchester novel ever written'. A truly polyvalent, hyperstitional and disquieting work wether you're familiar with Manchester or not. Nevertheless, coverage was difficult in the provinces & nationally — the book was probably the very last thing people wanted to read after quarantine. @thebafflermag & The Modern Novel did review thoughtfully. But again, our wonderful reps got us zero retail sales within the city — and to this day we sell more copies in the US than in Manchester...Thanks to @annabel5637 for all her hard work in the edit... check out her Passing Time blog for further insight into the novel, and to David Bellos (RIP) who stated that he would teach the new edition on his course at Princeton Uni, hurrah.We began excerpting the work, daily (automated initially) over on Twitter (ButorTime), but ceased when the site became a fash hellscape — Butor himself had witnessed Paris occupied by the Nazis as a child. A start was made on an interactive map. Such things fall apart, unfortunately.We still haven't had a launch event.#Books#NouveauRoman#FrenchLiterature](https://scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/615578093_18529390942069783_3007012510111007845_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15_tt6&_nc_ht=scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2gFMvqapHQFgfAIlSeoeKIPbdWneGYWw5mJKgUrSyLgGHM_ODAOV4WYyg9r-CFZ3mgk3T8zn38LTNvAL207ydUs_&_nc_ohc=3f8OF0K4sc8Q7kNvwFp-005&_nc_gid=Odm4t8wbfikPfNOJgR3J-w&edm=ANTKIIoBAAAA&ccb=7-5&oh=00_Af5u01AckjNte605Ai-OrZm4Pl2ij-x-9hy8Lmo8qvxI0A&oe=6A1188CA&_nc_sid=d885a2)
![As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North.....07.06.21 —'Passing Time'Michel Butor [trans. Jean Stewart]a-format softcoverEd.: Jonny Walsh & Cath AnnabelCover Art: Steven CherryTypesetting: Alex BillingtonDistro.: Compass/Central..'Passing Time' is a re-edited (over lockdown) and re-published edition of the original English translation of Michel Butor's 1956 psychohistorical odyssey: 'L'emploi du temps' (Faber, 1960). Butor was a teaching assistant @officialuom 1951-52, living in Whalley Range & Burnage.Jacques Revel, economic migrant, arrives in Bleston — a thinly disguised & misremembered Manchester. We follow his diary & subsequent mental deterioration as the sooty atmosphere & architecture closes in, while mysterious fires erupt throughout the city. Can he solve the puzzle of 'The Bleston Murder' & free himself from the labyrinth of his mind!?We accurately billed 'Passing Time' as the great, forgotten Manchester novel. Lee Rourke even called it 'the greatest Manchester novel ever written'. A truly polyvalent, hyperstitional and disquieting work wether you're familiar with Manchester or not. Nevertheless, coverage was difficult in the provinces & nationally — the book was probably the very last thing people wanted to read after quarantine. @thebafflermag & The Modern Novel did review thoughtfully. But again, our wonderful reps got us zero retail sales within the city — and to this day we sell more copies in the US than in Manchester...Thanks to @annabel5637 for all her hard work in the edit... check out her Passing Time blog for further insight into the novel, and to David Bellos (RIP) who stated that he would teach the new edition on his course at Princeton Uni, hurrah.We began excerpting the work, daily (automated initially) over on Twitter (ButorTime), but ceased when the site became a fash hellscape — Butor himself had witnessed Paris occupied by the Nazis as a child. A start was made on an interactive map. Such things fall apart, unfortunately.We still haven't had a launch event.#Books#NouveauRoman#FrenchLiterature](https://scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/614880249_18529391179069783_7500769398951240731_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_s1080x1080_sh2.08_tt6&_nc_ht=scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2gFMvqapHQFgfAIlSeoeKIPbdWneGYWw5mJKgUrSyLgGHM_ODAOV4WYyg9r-CFZ3mgk3T8zn38LTNvAL207ydUs_&_nc_ohc=yvJQ0X3vxKkQ7kNvwHPBjBS&_nc_gid=Odm4t8wbfikPfNOJgR3J-w&edm=ANTKIIoBAAAA&ccb=7-5&oh=00_Af5BuCdGw7LRsNs5uoWNjpYnGOJNFZrIdKgkpJHYoKy3pg&oe=6A116BC4&_nc_sid=d885a2)
![As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North.....07.06.21 —'Passing Time'Michel Butor [trans. Jean Stewart]a-format softcoverEd.: Jonny Walsh & Cath AnnabelCover Art: Steven CherryTypesetting: Alex BillingtonDistro.: Compass/Central..'Passing Time' is a re-edited (over lockdown) and re-published edition of the original English translation of Michel Butor's 1956 psychohistorical odyssey: 'L'emploi du temps' (Faber, 1960). Butor was a teaching assistant @officialuom 1951-52, living in Whalley Range & Burnage.Jacques Revel, economic migrant, arrives in Bleston — a thinly disguised & misremembered Manchester. We follow his diary & subsequent mental deterioration as the sooty atmosphere & architecture closes in, while mysterious fires erupt throughout the city. Can he solve the puzzle of 'The Bleston Murder' & free himself from the labyrinth of his mind!?We accurately billed 'Passing Time' as the great, forgotten Manchester novel. Lee Rourke even called it 'the greatest Manchester novel ever written'. A truly polyvalent, hyperstitional and disquieting work wether you're familiar with Manchester or not. Nevertheless, coverage was difficult in the provinces & nationally — the book was probably the very last thing people wanted to read after quarantine. @thebafflermag & The Modern Novel did review thoughtfully. But again, our wonderful reps got us zero retail sales within the city — and to this day we sell more copies in the US than in Manchester...Thanks to @annabel5637 for all her hard work in the edit... check out her Passing Time blog for further insight into the novel, and to David Bellos (RIP) who stated that he would teach the new edition on his course at Princeton Uni, hurrah.We began excerpting the work, daily (automated initially) over on Twitter (ButorTime), but ceased when the site became a fash hellscape — Butor himself had witnessed Paris occupied by the Nazis as a child. A start was made on an interactive map. Such things fall apart, unfortunately.We still haven't had a launch event.#Books#NouveauRoman#FrenchLiterature](https://scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/614959998_18529391017069783_2691809181986997700_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15_tt6&_nc_ht=scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2gFMvqapHQFgfAIlSeoeKIPbdWneGYWw5mJKgUrSyLgGHM_ODAOV4WYyg9r-CFZ3mgk3T8zn38LTNvAL207ydUs_&_nc_ohc=L7N4aRbqzJIQ7kNvwE7YAGr&_nc_gid=Odm4t8wbfikPfNOJgR3J-w&edm=ANTKIIoBAAAA&ccb=7-5&oh=00_Af6Ve163lrgcpeGstwS2dRLCZgMOBVgL3k1t8DOgjwHWtA&oe=6A115FA2&_nc_sid=d885a2)
![As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North.....07.06.21 —'Passing Time'Michel Butor [trans. Jean Stewart]a-format softcoverEd.: Jonny Walsh & Cath AnnabelCover Art: Steven CherryTypesetting: Alex BillingtonDistro.: Compass/Central..'Passing Time' is a re-edited (over lockdown) and re-published edition of the original English translation of Michel Butor's 1956 psychohistorical odyssey: 'L'emploi du temps' (Faber, 1960). Butor was a teaching assistant @officialuom 1951-52, living in Whalley Range & Burnage.Jacques Revel, economic migrant, arrives in Bleston — a thinly disguised & misremembered Manchester. We follow his diary & subsequent mental deterioration as the sooty atmosphere & architecture closes in, while mysterious fires erupt throughout the city. Can he solve the puzzle of 'The Bleston Murder' & free himself from the labyrinth of his mind!?We accurately billed 'Passing Time' as the great, forgotten Manchester novel. Lee Rourke even called it 'the greatest Manchester novel ever written'. A truly polyvalent, hyperstitional and disquieting work wether you're familiar with Manchester or not. Nevertheless, coverage was difficult in the provinces & nationally — the book was probably the very last thing people wanted to read after quarantine. @thebafflermag & The Modern Novel did review thoughtfully. But again, our wonderful reps got us zero retail sales within the city — and to this day we sell more copies in the US than in Manchester...Thanks to @annabel5637 for all her hard work in the edit... check out her Passing Time blog for further insight into the novel, and to David Bellos (RIP) who stated that he would teach the new edition on his course at Princeton Uni, hurrah.We began excerpting the work, daily (automated initially) over on Twitter (ButorTime), but ceased when the site became a fash hellscape — Butor himself had witnessed Paris occupied by the Nazis as a child. A start was made on an interactive map. Such things fall apart, unfortunately.We still haven't had a launch event.#Books#NouveauRoman#FrenchLiterature](https://scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/615683645_18529391014069783_189922090697316992_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15_tt6&_nc_ht=scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2gFMvqapHQFgfAIlSeoeKIPbdWneGYWw5mJKgUrSyLgGHM_ODAOV4WYyg9r-CFZ3mgk3T8zn38LTNvAL207ydUs_&_nc_ohc=_yBPrjsZMPYQ7kNvwHZ_dWF&_nc_gid=Odm4t8wbfikPfNOJgR3J-w&edm=ANTKIIoBAAAA&ccb=7-5&oh=00_Af4RU2rbp4kMGUMl_bw_PVx26M9zjblv2qjn62bs9O8pxA&oe=6A115FEA&_nc_sid=d885a2)
![As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North.....07.06.21 —'Passing Time'Michel Butor [trans. Jean Stewart]a-format softcoverEd.: Jonny Walsh & Cath AnnabelCover Art: Steven CherryTypesetting: Alex BillingtonDistro.: Compass/Central..'Passing Time' is a re-edited (over lockdown) and re-published edition of the original English translation of Michel Butor's 1956 psychohistorical odyssey: 'L'emploi du temps' (Faber, 1960). Butor was a teaching assistant @officialuom 1951-52, living in Whalley Range & Burnage.Jacques Revel, economic migrant, arrives in Bleston — a thinly disguised & misremembered Manchester. We follow his diary & subsequent mental deterioration as the sooty atmosphere & architecture closes in, while mysterious fires erupt throughout the city. Can he solve the puzzle of 'The Bleston Murder' & free himself from the labyrinth of his mind!?We accurately billed 'Passing Time' as the great, forgotten Manchester novel. Lee Rourke even called it 'the greatest Manchester novel ever written'. A truly polyvalent, hyperstitional and disquieting work wether you're familiar with Manchester or not. Nevertheless, coverage was difficult in the provinces & nationally — the book was probably the very last thing people wanted to read after quarantine. @thebafflermag & The Modern Novel did review thoughtfully. But again, our wonderful reps got us zero retail sales within the city — and to this day we sell more copies in the US than in Manchester...Thanks to @annabel5637 for all her hard work in the edit... check out her Passing Time blog for further insight into the novel, and to David Bellos (RIP) who stated that he would teach the new edition on his course at Princeton Uni, hurrah.We began excerpting the work, daily (automated initially) over on Twitter (ButorTime), but ceased when the site became a fash hellscape — Butor himself had witnessed Paris occupied by the Nazis as a child. A start was made on an interactive map. Such things fall apart, unfortunately.We still haven't had a launch event.#Books#NouveauRoman#FrenchLiterature](https://scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/614880249_18529391065069783_5594409786649533031_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_s1080x1080_sh2.08_tt6&_nc_ht=scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2gFMvqapHQFgfAIlSeoeKIPbdWneGYWw5mJKgUrSyLgGHM_ODAOV4WYyg9r-CFZ3mgk3T8zn38LTNvAL207ydUs_&_nc_ohc=CeYMf-MvT1sQ7kNvwFDBsuM&_nc_gid=Odm4t8wbfikPfNOJgR3J-w&edm=ANTKIIoBAAAA&ccb=7-5&oh=00_Af6qh4BsSJSw89KEy2h-MS_yVmjqbucmaRcbfRDYjHJAJw&oe=6A118B60&_nc_sid=d885a2)
![As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North.....07.06.21 —'Passing Time'Michel Butor [trans. Jean Stewart]a-format softcoverEd.: Jonny Walsh & Cath AnnabelCover Art: Steven CherryTypesetting: Alex BillingtonDistro.: Compass/Central..'Passing Time' is a re-edited (over lockdown) and re-published edition of the original English translation of Michel Butor's 1956 psychohistorical odyssey: 'L'emploi du temps' (Faber, 1960). Butor was a teaching assistant @officialuom 1951-52, living in Whalley Range & Burnage.Jacques Revel, economic migrant, arrives in Bleston — a thinly disguised & misremembered Manchester. We follow his diary & subsequent mental deterioration as the sooty atmosphere & architecture closes in, while mysterious fires erupt throughout the city. Can he solve the puzzle of 'The Bleston Murder' & free himself from the labyrinth of his mind!?We accurately billed 'Passing Time' as the great, forgotten Manchester novel. Lee Rourke even called it 'the greatest Manchester novel ever written'. A truly polyvalent, hyperstitional and disquieting work wether you're familiar with Manchester or not. Nevertheless, coverage was difficult in the provinces & nationally — the book was probably the very last thing people wanted to read after quarantine. @thebafflermag & The Modern Novel did review thoughtfully. But again, our wonderful reps got us zero retail sales within the city — and to this day we sell more copies in the US than in Manchester...Thanks to @annabel5637 for all her hard work in the edit... check out her Passing Time blog for further insight into the novel, and to David Bellos (RIP) who stated that he would teach the new edition on his course at Princeton Uni, hurrah.We began excerpting the work, daily (automated initially) over on Twitter (ButorTime), but ceased when the site became a fash hellscape — Butor himself had witnessed Paris occupied by the Nazis as a child. A start was made on an interactive map. Such things fall apart, unfortunately.We still haven't had a launch event.#Books#NouveauRoman#FrenchLiterature](https://scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/615394328_18529391056069783_6031843092586658124_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_s1080x1080_sh2.08_tt6&_nc_ht=scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2gFMvqapHQFgfAIlSeoeKIPbdWneGYWw5mJKgUrSyLgGHM_ODAOV4WYyg9r-CFZ3mgk3T8zn38LTNvAL207ydUs_&_nc_ohc=efYh7O4x3TQQ7kNvwG1KpNn&_nc_gid=Odm4t8wbfikPfNOJgR3J-w&edm=ANTKIIoBAAAA&ccb=7-5&oh=00_Af72M1scjyF6Ib7DG1aUtNr21-JOdb24UyFNVsiyJ9mYsg&oe=6A118EC6&_nc_sid=d885a2)
![As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North.....07.06.21 —'Passing Time'Michel Butor [trans. Jean Stewart]a-format softcoverEd.: Jonny Walsh & Cath AnnabelCover Art: Steven CherryTypesetting: Alex BillingtonDistro.: Compass/Central..'Passing Time' is a re-edited (over lockdown) and re-published edition of the original English translation of Michel Butor's 1956 psychohistorical odyssey: 'L'emploi du temps' (Faber, 1960). Butor was a teaching assistant @officialuom 1951-52, living in Whalley Range & Burnage.Jacques Revel, economic migrant, arrives in Bleston — a thinly disguised & misremembered Manchester. We follow his diary & subsequent mental deterioration as the sooty atmosphere & architecture closes in, while mysterious fires erupt throughout the city. Can he solve the puzzle of 'The Bleston Murder' & free himself from the labyrinth of his mind!?We accurately billed 'Passing Time' as the great, forgotten Manchester novel. Lee Rourke even called it 'the greatest Manchester novel ever written'. A truly polyvalent, hyperstitional and disquieting work wether you're familiar with Manchester or not. Nevertheless, coverage was difficult in the provinces & nationally — the book was probably the very last thing people wanted to read after quarantine. @thebafflermag & The Modern Novel did review thoughtfully. But again, our wonderful reps got us zero retail sales within the city — and to this day we sell more copies in the US than in Manchester...Thanks to @annabel5637 for all her hard work in the edit... check out her Passing Time blog for further insight into the novel, and to David Bellos (RIP) who stated that he would teach the new edition on his course at Princeton Uni, hurrah.We began excerpting the work, daily (automated initially) over on Twitter (ButorTime), but ceased when the site became a fash hellscape — Butor himself had witnessed Paris occupied by the Nazis as a child. A start was made on an interactive map. Such things fall apart, unfortunately.We still haven't had a launch event.#Books#NouveauRoman#FrenchLiterature](https://scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/615581817_18529391026069783_5391680496309635084_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e15_tt6&_nc_ht=scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2gFMvqapHQFgfAIlSeoeKIPbdWneGYWw5mJKgUrSyLgGHM_ODAOV4WYyg9r-CFZ3mgk3T8zn38LTNvAL207ydUs_&_nc_ohc=j_5ZKysdgf0Q7kNvwHQ-wO0&_nc_gid=Odm4t8wbfikPfNOJgR3J-w&edm=ANTKIIoBAAAA&ccb=7-5&oh=00_Af5mZKeb3SrT3SHH_X2BwxGFgTmtEQMDZBDn5vKeEYI3uQ&oe=6A1161A4&_nc_sid=d885a2)
![As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North.....07.06.21 —'Passing Time'Michel Butor [trans. Jean Stewart]a-format softcoverEd.: Jonny Walsh & Cath AnnabelCover Art: Steven CherryTypesetting: Alex BillingtonDistro.: Compass/Central..'Passing Time' is a re-edited (over lockdown) and re-published edition of the original English translation of Michel Butor's 1956 psychohistorical odyssey: 'L'emploi du temps' (Faber, 1960). Butor was a teaching assistant @officialuom 1951-52, living in Whalley Range & Burnage.Jacques Revel, economic migrant, arrives in Bleston — a thinly disguised & misremembered Manchester. We follow his diary & subsequent mental deterioration as the sooty atmosphere & architecture closes in, while mysterious fires erupt throughout the city. Can he solve the puzzle of 'The Bleston Murder' & free himself from the labyrinth of his mind!?We accurately billed 'Passing Time' as the great, forgotten Manchester novel. Lee Rourke even called it 'the greatest Manchester novel ever written'. A truly polyvalent, hyperstitional and disquieting work wether you're familiar with Manchester or not. Nevertheless, coverage was difficult in the provinces & nationally — the book was probably the very last thing people wanted to read after quarantine. @thebafflermag & The Modern Novel did review thoughtfully. But again, our wonderful reps got us zero retail sales within the city — and to this day we sell more copies in the US than in Manchester...Thanks to @annabel5637 for all her hard work in the edit... check out her Passing Time blog for further insight into the novel, and to David Bellos (RIP) who stated that he would teach the new edition on his course at Princeton Uni, hurrah.We began excerpting the work, daily (automated initially) over on Twitter (ButorTime), but ceased when the site became a fash hellscape — Butor himself had witnessed Paris occupied by the Nazis as a child. A start was made on an interactive map. Such things fall apart, unfortunately.We still haven't had a launch event.#Books#NouveauRoman#FrenchLiterature](https://scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/614918064_18529391143069783_8985288539477915604_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_s1080x1080_sh2.08_tt6&_nc_ht=scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2gFMvqapHQFgfAIlSeoeKIPbdWneGYWw5mJKgUrSyLgGHM_ODAOV4WYyg9r-CFZ3mgk3T8zn38LTNvAL207ydUs_&_nc_ohc=CF3U7GmcT9oQ7kNvwGrbehu&_nc_gid=Odm4t8wbfikPfNOJgR3J-w&edm=ANTKIIoBAAAA&ccb=7-5&oh=00_Af4echdYOk7byFmkx2_SZleFwYYeo_Y3RA0MkPTYuH4i_A&oe=6A117874&_nc_sid=d885a2)
![As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North.....07.06.21 —'Passing Time'Michel Butor [trans. Jean Stewart]a-format softcoverEd.: Jonny Walsh & Cath AnnabelCover Art: Steven CherryTypesetting: Alex BillingtonDistro.: Compass/Central..'Passing Time' is a re-edited (over lockdown) and re-published edition of the original English translation of Michel Butor's 1956 psychohistorical odyssey: 'L'emploi du temps' (Faber, 1960). Butor was a teaching assistant @officialuom 1951-52, living in Whalley Range & Burnage.Jacques Revel, economic migrant, arrives in Bleston — a thinly disguised & misremembered Manchester. We follow his diary & subsequent mental deterioration as the sooty atmosphere & architecture closes in, while mysterious fires erupt throughout the city. Can he solve the puzzle of 'The Bleston Murder' & free himself from the labyrinth of his mind!?We accurately billed 'Passing Time' as the great, forgotten Manchester novel. Lee Rourke even called it 'the greatest Manchester novel ever written'. A truly polyvalent, hyperstitional and disquieting work wether you're familiar with Manchester or not. Nevertheless, coverage was difficult in the provinces & nationally — the book was probably the very last thing people wanted to read after quarantine. @thebafflermag & The Modern Novel did review thoughtfully. But again, our wonderful reps got us zero retail sales within the city — and to this day we sell more copies in the US than in Manchester...Thanks to @annabel5637 for all her hard work in the edit... check out her Passing Time blog for further insight into the novel, and to David Bellos (RIP) who stated that he would teach the new edition on his course at Princeton Uni, hurrah.We began excerpting the work, daily (automated initially) over on Twitter (ButorTime), but ceased when the site became a fash hellscape — Butor himself had witnessed Paris occupied by the Nazis as a child. A start was made on an interactive map. Such things fall apart, unfortunately.We still haven't had a launch event.#Books#NouveauRoman#FrenchLiterature](https://scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/615124249_18529391170069783_7823640061286616587_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_s1080x1080_sh2.08_tt6&_nc_ht=scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2gFMvqapHQFgfAIlSeoeKIPbdWneGYWw5mJKgUrSyLgGHM_ODAOV4WYyg9r-CFZ3mgk3T8zn38LTNvAL207ydUs_&_nc_ohc=nP0XAWgWiKIQ7kNvwEliq0J&_nc_gid=Odm4t8wbfikPfNOJgR3J-w&edm=ANTKIIoBAAAA&ccb=7-5&oh=00_Af5MyevDQIxWBKAvSK3xTzuL-zvYMKXTAZLbCX3XOoUczQ&oe=6A117929&_nc_sid=d885a2)
![As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North.....07.06.21 —'Passing Time'Michel Butor [trans. Jean Stewart]a-format softcoverEd.: Jonny Walsh & Cath AnnabelCover Art: Steven CherryTypesetting: Alex BillingtonDistro.: Compass/Central..'Passing Time' is a re-edited (over lockdown) and re-published edition of the original English translation of Michel Butor's 1956 psychohistorical odyssey: 'L'emploi du temps' (Faber, 1960). Butor was a teaching assistant @officialuom 1951-52, living in Whalley Range & Burnage.Jacques Revel, economic migrant, arrives in Bleston — a thinly disguised & misremembered Manchester. We follow his diary & subsequent mental deterioration as the sooty atmosphere & architecture closes in, while mysterious fires erupt throughout the city. Can he solve the puzzle of 'The Bleston Murder' & free himself from the labyrinth of his mind!?We accurately billed 'Passing Time' as the great, forgotten Manchester novel. Lee Rourke even called it 'the greatest Manchester novel ever written'. A truly polyvalent, hyperstitional and disquieting work wether you're familiar with Manchester or not. Nevertheless, coverage was difficult in the provinces & nationally — the book was probably the very last thing people wanted to read after quarantine. @thebafflermag & The Modern Novel did review thoughtfully. But again, our wonderful reps got us zero retail sales within the city — and to this day we sell more copies in the US than in Manchester...Thanks to @annabel5637 for all her hard work in the edit... check out her Passing Time blog for further insight into the novel, and to David Bellos (RIP) who stated that he would teach the new edition on his course at Princeton Uni, hurrah.We began excerpting the work, daily (automated initially) over on Twitter (ButorTime), but ceased when the site became a fash hellscape — Butor himself had witnessed Paris occupied by the Nazis as a child. A start was made on an interactive map. Such things fall apart, unfortunately.We still haven't had a launch event.#Books#NouveauRoman#FrenchLiterature](https://scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/615396216_18529391188069783_323610471745536678_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_s1080x1080_sh2.08_tt6&_nc_ht=scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=Q6cZ2gFMvqapHQFgfAIlSeoeKIPbdWneGYWw5mJKgUrSyLgGHM_ODAOV4WYyg9r-CFZ3mgk3T8zn38LTNvAL207ydUs_&_nc_ohc=u8-D2Tn4NPcQ7kNvwEHxU7Y&_nc_gid=Odm4t8wbfikPfNOJgR3J-w&edm=ANTKIIoBAAAA&ccb=7-5&oh=00_Af7hyPsXn9__16BkGBTM9MBLwgjVqprdvthdESO4yqXflg&oe=6A118210&_nc_sid=d885a2)
