{"product_id":"social-exposure-and-humiliation-by-thomas-leitner","title":"Social Exposure \u0026 Humiliation by Thomas Leitner","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"162\" data-end=\"205\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"162\" data-end=\"205\"\u003eA novel about the terror of being seen.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"207\" data-end=\"370\"\u003eAn unnamed man moves through ordinary public spaces where nothing appears to be happening and yet everything is being measured.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"372\" data-end=\"531\"\u003eA hallway. A counter. A waiting room. A form. A woman across a café table. A room full of people who seem to know how to stand, speak, wait, answer, and leave.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"533\" data-end=\"699\"\u003eHe is never openly attacked. No one names his weakness. No one has to. The world remains polite, procedural, and neutral. That neutrality is what makes it unbearable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"701\" data-end=\"933\"\u003eWhat begins as discomfort slowly becomes something more precise: the discovery that exposure does not require cruelty, and humiliation does not require an audience that laughs. Sometimes it is enough to be visible and unable to act.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"935\" data-end=\"1210\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eThomas Leitner writes with severe restraint, refusing confession, explanation, or psychological release. The result is a cold, unsettling novel about presence without authority, movement without arrival, and the quiet violence of being seen before one is able to become real.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ArchivusBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53353370190189,"sku":null,"price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/8471\/9725\/files\/1779202047.png?v=1779202564","url":"https:\/\/archivusbooks.store\/products\/social-exposure-and-humiliation-by-thomas-leitner","provider":"Archivus Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}