{"product_id":"jonathan-martin-paperback","title":"Jonathan Martin - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnsgar Allen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this novel \u003cem\u003eJonathan Martin\u003c\/em\u003e, Ansgar Allen resurrects the incendiary life of the 19th-century outsider who, in 1829, set fire to York Minster. Martin's life - at once prophetic, deranged, and tragically emblematic of his age - becomes the ground for Allen's boldest experiment in historical fiction to date. Blending archival fragments, self-published pamphlets, trial records, and fictionalised reconstructions, \u003cem\u003eJonathan Martin\u003c\/em\u003e asks: was Martin a prophet or a lunatic, an arsonist or a visionary? Allen's prose, at turns Joycean, Woolfian, and Beckettian, inhabits Martin's fractured language and his millenarian visions, bringing to life a world teetering between religious ecstasy, madness, and political upheaval. Structured in fragments that echo Martin's broken language and visions, the novel interlaces biography, dream, trial record, and philosophical meditation. Martin's story collides with those of his siblings - William the \"Philosophical Conqueror of All Nations,\" John the Artist, Richard the Poet-Quartermaster - each of whom embodies another skewed path of enlightenment or ruin. At the centre stands Jonathan: incendiary, prophet, lunatic. A powerful meditation on authorial voice, writing as prophecy, and the boundaries between sanity and inspiration, \u003cem\u003eJonathan Martin\u003c\/em\u003e continues Allen's exploration of education, deviance, and social order. It is a work of fiction that refuses to perpetuate the illusion of coherence, confronting the reader instead with the broken totality of a life lived on the edge of destruction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ansgar Allen's new novel tableaus a life in fragments, exhibiting-by way of public dissection-a relentlessly detached and digressive sequence of blunt, dry, unflinching incisions into the heart of bleakness. Undeniably blackly comic, \u003cem\u003eJonathan Martin\u003c\/em\u003e metafictionally nods to Tristram Shandy and B.S. Johnson, mocking the absurdity of the one-POV historic novel and our own needs for the impossible, mythological \"truth.\"\"-\u003cstrong\u003eVik Shirley\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is an act of negation, it tells us what literature is by telling us what it is not, what it can't do and what it won't. It is appositely negative-theological, it is also an act of arson of a sort.\"-\u003cstrong\u003eSteve Hanson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eJonathan Martin\u003c\/em\u003e does not offer a linear tale of madness but a polyphonic reconstruction, where voices collide and history itself burns. Allen's prose inhabits Martin's broken language and visionary fury, producing a narrative that is as unsettling as it is hypnotic. At once historical fiction, philosophical meditation, and radical experiment, \u003cem\u003eJonathan Martin\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel of fire and prophecy, of derangement and divine vengeance, that confronts the reader with the instability of reason and the dangerous allure of belief.\"-\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Vichnar\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 170\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 09, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48336191422713,"sku":"9781739431051","price":20.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/93YQrJr4mL9781739431051.webp?v=1777518063","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/jonathan-martin-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}