Blue Light: and Starting Over - Couverture souple

Fraser, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0992758858 ISBN 13 : 9780992758851

Editeur : Aesop Publications, 2014

Synopsis

Blue Light comprises two novellas by John Fraser: Blue Light: After the End and Starting Over.

We may like to imagine we know what the end of the world will be like – and maybe it will not be dissimilar to our own individual ends. Blue Light shows what it’s like, the running down, the onset of rigor mortis, the new life sprouting, notwithstanding.

Living for ever may not be too bad – but do we really want it? When the world has ended, how attractive is rebirth, or resurrection? Starting Over may mean we have to piece a whole new world together – just using the ruins of the past.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Fraser is the author of 18 works of literary and speculative fiction. He has lived in Rome since 1980. Previously he worked in England and Canada. The distinguished poet, novelist and Booker Prize nominee John Fuller has written of Fraser’s fiction:

One of the most extraordinary publishing events of the past few years has been the rapid, indeed insistent, appearance of the novels of John Fraser. There are few parallels in literary history to this almost simultaneous and largely belated appearance of a mature œuvre, sprung like Athena from Zeus’s forehead; and the novels in themselves are extraordinary. I can think of nothing much like them in fiction. Fraser maintains a masterfully ironic distance from the extreme conditions in which his characters find themselves. There are strikingly beautiful descriptions, veiled allusions to rooted traditions, unlikely events half-glimpsed, abrupted narratives, surreal but somehow apposite social customs.

Fraser’s work is conceived on a heroic scale in terms both of its ideas and its situational metaphors. If he were to be filmed, it would need the combined talents of a Bunuel, a Gilliam, a Cameron. Like Thomas Pynchon, whom in some ways he resembles, Fraser is a deep and serious fantasist, wildly inventive. The reader rides as on a switchback or luge of impetuous attention, with effects flashing by at virtuoso speeds. The characters seem to be unwitting agents of chaos, however much wise reflection the author bestows upon them. They move with shrugging self-assurance through circumstances as richly-detailed and as without reliable compass-points as a Chinese scroll.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Aesop Publications
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0992758858
• ISBN 13: 9780992758851
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 222
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