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Lädt ... La Medusavon Vanessa Place
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Each metropolis preselects its suicide like an officer packs a capsule, for if a city lives by remembering, mein Leibnitz Herr, the opposite must also be true, ergo a city dies from forgetting, and such death is by the city’s own hand, it turns it neglected bungalows to gallows and potholes its veins. Wasn't Leibnitz snowed in somewhere and instead of completing a mathematical treatise, instead developed a system for irrigation? I recall reading that somewhere in the shadowed corridors of my memory. Likewise the dump of snow we experienced in fits and starts last week and into this weekend put all other endeavors on hold. I was left with this hefty tome and an otherworldly silence. Some other reviewer led me to explore Blake Butler's conversation with Vanessa Place in html.giant. A resounding thunderclap of affectation was discovered. I did not allow that to dissuade me. There are threads and patches of this novel which remain inscrutable. There are also lush expanses of a poetic argot which only a well-read polyglot could embrace. I may be just pulling out of the station towards Well Read. I struggle enough with English. La Medusa concerns Los Angeles, the City of Angels, Hollywood(land) and the crack and Glock infested corner of the American imagination. The associations between threads and characters revealed whispers of our cinematic memory, one from Sunset Boulevard to Magnolia, though Crash (2004) appears a lodestar as it is for Danielewski and Ericson. The snow afforded ponderous solitude and muscle memory conjured the feral. Hibernation is presupposed by mastication and gnawing remains a poetic ritual. Salvaging through the depths of La Medusa, one can certainly be sated if not unhinged by its rich eloquence. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
La Medusa is a polyphonic novel of post-conceptual consciousness. At the heart of the whole floats Medusa, an androgynous central awareness that anchors the novel throughout. La Medusa is at once the city of Los Angeles, with its snaking freeways and serpentine shifts between reality and illusion, and a brain--a modern mind that is both expansive and penetrating in its obsessions and perceptions. Vanessa Place's characters--a trucker and his wife, a nine-year-old saxophonist, an ice cream vendor, a sex worker, and a corpse, among others--are borderless selves in a borderless city, a city impossible to contain. Her expert ventriloquism and explosive imagination anchor this epic narrative in language that is fierce and vibrant, a penetrating a cross-section of contemporary Los Angeles and a cross-section of the modern mind. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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(also- there's a cool Vanessa Place appreciation post on htmlgiant right now) ( )