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If you've found your way here, chances are you share a love for the kind of art and literature that lives just beneath the surface which can take you on unexpected and thrilling journeys.
The novel Station 23 is such a piece of literature.
Currently only In Dutch, Station 23 is one of the best and most exciting novels of the 21st Century that deserves to be available to an English speaking readership.
I have launched a Kickstarter campaign to make that happen.
Through my company, Secret City Salon Ltd., we are publishing the definitive, first-ever English translation of Louis V.'s novel.
Because this is a completely independent project, I am bypassing the traditional publishing machinery. I want to do this right, with high-spec printing, beautiful design, and the care that a limited first edition deserves.
To make that happen, we need a community.
I am running a crowdfunding campaign to fund the translation, production, and distribution of a strictly limited physical run. 1000 copies only will be printed and 950 of those will be available to backers of the campaign.
Click here to go to the 23 Kickstarter pages.
If you want to see independent, uncompromising literature thrive, we would love to have you on board.
To give you a brief feel for Station 23, click on the lines below that will take you to somewhere in the novel:
- All this unfolded in a habitat governed by its own rules, which were entirely devoid of logic
- A second group held that it was unnecessary to worship ink literally
- I beseech you to summon your imagination! It is by no means my desire to burden your mind with such grotesque images
- Here you will find some promotional videos created by Louis V. for Station 23
- A short biography of Louis V. in his own words is here
- Here you will find some attempts at visualising Station 23, using Lovart
Station 23 is an avant garde, multi genre novel.
A kaleidoscopic, at times hallucinatory and often humorous narrative, the book explores the deep pleasures and inherent dangers of the literary imagination.It masterfully blurs the lines between reality and fiction, unfolding across diverse time periods and international locations.
The novel intricately weaves together three inseparable storylines:
- Chris Verhuist — a social failure and misanthrope whose misadventures reach their climax in Moscow.
- Leonard the White Rabbit — whose spectacular journeys take place in the Empire, a realm where all written fiction becomes fact.
- The Station 23 agents — long entrenched in their own history, now forced to marshal every resource to prevent a disaster of apocalyptic dimensions.
By incorporating talking animals and reimagined figures from classic literature, the book creates a highly stylised, ever shifting universe in which truth and fiction become entirely indistinguishable.
