Tomasula S. IN&OZ

Author	Tomasula S.
Title	IN&OZ
Description	IN & OZ is a novel by writer and media theorist Steve Tomasula about labour and art, design and engineering, hope and the impossibility of creative fulfilment. The conceptual framework of this parable is defined by two borderlands: OZ, a realm of refinement and earthbound-detached ideals, where value is determined by demand, and IN, a world of dirt, waste and the working class, condemned to pass its trade from one generation to the next. This fantastical world is inhabited by characters whose names reflect their functions: the Mechanic, the Composer, the Designer, the Poet/Sculptor and the Photographer. Their loneliness draws them together as they attempt to escape the roles assigned to them and search for possibilities of change in a world divided between endless reproduction and gradual decay. The Mechanic discovers beauty in the workings of an engine, the Photographer transforms his apartment into a camera obscura, and the Poet finds creative fulfilment in writing technical documentation. Each has a distinct poetics of creation, and their paths must cross before they can better understand themselves and the world around them. Steve Tomasula is an American writer, critic and editor whose work combines visual and narrative techniques to rethink the structure and form of the novel as a medium. His writing explores art in the age of reproducibility, the genetic revolution and the manipulation of nature. He is Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and a scholar of contemporary avant-garde literature. Translated by Jamshed Avazov. Illustrations by Stasya Kislitsa.
Year	2026
Publisher	Pollen press
Pages	128
Cover	Hardcover
ISBN	978-5-6054698-1-0

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