Pavel Büchler (República Tcheca, 1952)
Marx Angels
London: Book Works, 1997
14 x 10 cm
48 p.
Offset
1000 ex.
ISBN: 1870699327
This book formed part of a comissioned work for Library Relocations at Chetham’s Library, Manchester, 1997.
Drawing on research within the library, Marx Angels contains extracts from correspondence between Marx and Engels, who both spent time studying in Chetham’s Library.
Presented as a journal and illustrated with details of hand gestures culled from the media, Marx and Engels’ correspondence is paraphrased by extracts from Pavel Büchler’s imaginary diary. These diary extracts, reading like a list of Fluxus actions, reveal the warmth, humour and the mundanity of domestic arrangements within the correspondence of Marx and Engels.