A Style and Its Origins

By Howard Barker

Howard Barker's alter-ego Eduardo Houth first materialised as the photographer of publicity images for Barker's theatre company The Wrestling School, one of many fictional identities assumed by the playwright to screen a range of his activities, including set and costume design.

Writing of himself in the third person and in the historic tense, Barker/Houth achieves a fluency and an uncommon measure of objectivity, though objectivity is scarcely the sole intention. The result is a unique exercise in self-description, partisan but without the shrill self-justification so common in a mere autobiography. Barker/Houth's A Style and its Origins is very much a literary creation; it is also a totally original document and a rich history of the dramatist and his aesthetic.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840027185
• ISBN13: 9781840027181
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.7"