H

H is a 1973 novel by French novelist Philippe Sollers. The novel was distinguished by its lack of punctuation, similar to Sollers's novels Lois and Paradis. The book was published in English translation in 2015. Critic Roland Champagne describes H as the "culmination" of the "breakdown in traditional writing for Sollers," a period that began with Sollers's novel Lois. Overview Sollers opens H with a reference to Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus. This reference, Roland Champagne argues, reflects a kinship between the Anti-Oedipus authors' view of the self as a "desiring machine" and Sollers's desire to parody the "texts which create the self and thereby produce mirror-images of the self as it is reflected in the languages of culture." H is characterized by Sollers's preoccupation with Joyce's Finnegans Wake, a book that provides Sollers an example of "a true subversion of language and a profound historical vision." H also reveals Sollers's interest in Ezra Pound's work, "the epic thrust through time and across space."