Blankety Blank: A Memoir of Vulgaria

Blankety Blank
Author D. Harlan Wilson
Cover artist almacan & Brandon Duncan
Country United States
Language English
Genre Irrealism, Bizarro, Science Fiction, Horror, Postmodernism, Memoir, Novel
Publisher Raw Dog Screaming Press
Publication date
 2008
Media type Print
Pages 188 pp
ISBN 978-1-933293-50-9
OCLC 259224953
Preceded by Dr. Identity
Followed by Technologized Desire

Blankety Blank: A Memoir of Vulgaria (2005) is a novel by American author D. Harlan Wilson. The novel critiques the idea of the memoir as a form of truth-telling and problematizes history and narrative itself as possible modes of truth. It contains various “short histories” and literary devices that are flagrantly inaccurate or misguided, all in a way that underscores the constructedness of the human condition, as well as humanity’s collective racist tendencies.

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Rutger Van Trout has worse problems than his mundane existence in the all-consuming, all-suppressing Vulgaria of Grand Rapids, Michigan. It's not that his son might be turning into a werewolf, or that his daughter might be a nymphomaniac. The problem does not lie in his obsession with transforming his middle-class estate into a three-ring barnyard, nor in the shrunken head collection under the bed. He doesn't even mind his wife's (possibly) haunted skeleton or the freak-of-the-week superheroes and window-jumpers populating his neighborhood. The complication has invaded his community in the form of a new breed of serial killer, one who stalks from house to house throughout the Vulgaria leaving a bloodbath that would make Jack the Ripper himself blush. The killer's name is Mr. Blankety Blank, and Rutger Van Trout's neighborhood is on the wrong end of a killing spree ...

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