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​Susan Finlay's deft, subtle novel examines the psychic texture of life through our relation to things... objects of all kinds, from Filet-O-Fish sandwiches to high art, Le Creuset cookware, bicycle baskets and purpose-built, modern flats. Objektophilia is witty and brisk and devastating all at the same time. (Chris Kraus)

I love how it sees space, almost as a medium for objects to appear. There is a narrative, but it really does seem to exist as a way to “exhibit” these objects. It’s fascinating. (Amina Cain, The Paris Review)

A work of great richness and pleasure, as well as corresponding weariness and sarcasm [...] A lush exhibitor of objects [...] A beautiful reversal of all those novels whose fictional elements exist solely to advance the plot. (Times Literary Supplement)

Susan Finlay’s funny, bleak and sharply observed novel [...] immerses us in the obsessive preoccupation with objects—artworks, buildings, fast food, luxury goods, ‘niche’ design—that besets those who make a living from the culture industry... Part erotic fixation, part cultural disease. (Art Review)
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You can see a trailer for Objektophilia here, read a brief extract from it in Tank Magazine, read an interview about it in Minor Literatures, or listen to one on Public Intellectual​.   Copies can be accessed via the Museum of Contemporary Art and The Book Lovers Collections in Antwerp.  Or you can just buy one direct from Ma Bibliotheque and support a small but extremely chic press.

Published by Ma Bibliotheque, 2020