The Wavering Knife - Couverture souple

Evenson, Brian K.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1573661139 ISBN 13 : 9781573661133

Editeur : Fiction Collective Two, 2004

Synopsis

Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to readers of his earlier works, Evenson's Kafkaesque allegories entice the mind while stubbornly disordering it. In the title story an obsessive consciousness folds back on itself, creating a vertiginous mélange of Poe and Borges, both horrific and metaphysical. Here, as in "Moran's Mexico," and "Greenhouse," the solitary nature of reading and writing leads characters beyond human limits, making the act of putting words to paper a monstrous violation opening onto madness. In "White Square" the representation of humans by dimly colored shapes confirms our feeling that something lies behind these words, while seeming to mock us with the futility of seeking it. Evenson's enigmatic names-Thurm, Bein, Hatcher, Burlun-placeable landscapes, and barren rooms all combine to create a semblance of conceptual abstraction, as though the material universe had come to exist inside someone's head.

Small wonder that Evenson's work has attracted so much attention among philosophers, literary critics, and other speculative intelligences, for it continuously projects a tantalizing absence, as though there were some key or code that, if only we knew it, would illuminate everything. However, the blade of discernment wavers, and we are left to our own groping interpretations.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Brian Evenson is the author of numerous works of fiction, including Altmann s Tongue, Dark Property, Father of Lies, and The Wavering Knife. He is also director of the Literary Arts Program at Brown University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fiction Collective Two
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1573661139
• ISBN 13: 9781573661133
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 275
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• Personne responsable: non disponible