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Bezig met laden... Fugue Statedoor Brian Evenson
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Kafkaesque assembly of stories covering the usual categories of the horror genre but generally done from so unique a perspective that you almost don't realize exactly that a particular story belongs to a sub-genre. You end up saying: "I guess that was a ghost story, or I guess this is a zombie story.". It doesn't really matter because each story is so fresh and unique that categories and genres don't apply. Evenson's prose is spare in a way that reminds me of Ligotti or sometimes Hemingway. The little title illustrations by Zak Sally are a nice complement to each story. The story "Ninety Over Ninety" about a literary editor forced to abandon literature for blockbusters in order to keep his job. It is one of the funniest stories I've read for awhile but probably all too true. Brian Evenson is interested in the limitations of human understanding and our futile attempt at trying to understand the world around us using our primitive faculties that are woefully inappropriate for the job. All of the stories are based around this fundamentally human, but ultimately very limited thematic material. So it's not a surprise that Evenson runs out of things to say towards the end of the collection. Still a solid collection though. Brian Evenson is interested in the limitations of human understanding and our futile attempt at trying to understand the world around us using our primitive faculties that are woefully inappropriate for the job. All of the stories are based around this fundamentally human, but ultimately very limited thematic material. So it's not a surprise that Evenson runs out of things to say towards the end of the collection. Still a solid collection though.
Brian Evenson is the Donald Barthelme of psychological horror. Over a career of four novels and five story collections, he has birthed a distinctive, postmodern style for exploring his favorite macabre topics -- amputation, post-apocalyptic landscapes, doppelgängers, "creatures of darkness" and religious bloodshed. Yet the grimmest turns in Evenson's writing have always been connected to a singularly modern obsession with language. PrijzenOnderscheidingen
From the "the Donald Barthelme of psychological horror" (Los Angeles Times) comes this collection of "satisfying and surreal stories" (The Plain Dealer). Illustrated by graphic novelist Zak Sally, Brian Evenson's hallucinatory and darkly comic stories of paranoia, pursuit, sensory deprivation, amnesia, and retribution rattle the cages of the psyche and peer into the gaping moral chasm that opens when we become estranged from ourselves. From sadistic bosses with secret fears to a woman trapped in a mime's imaginary box, and from a post-apocalyptic misidentified Messiah to unwitting portraitists of the dead, the mind-bending world of this modern-day Edgar Allan Poe exposes the horror contained within our daily lives. "Brilliant . . . Evenson manages to capture madness with a masterful tone. The specific genius of Fugue State rests in subtlety, in Evenson's ability to maintain suspense, dread and paranoia through utter linguistic control." --Time Out New York "Brian Evenson is one of the treasures of American story writing, a true successor both to the generation of Coover, Barthelme, Hawkes and Co., but also to Edgar Allan Poe." --Jonathan Lethem "The stories in this collection will thrill, unsettle, and captivate . . . Read at your own risk." --Kelly Link Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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But this collection is goddamn brilliant. I didn't "put it together", so to speak, until the very final story but consider my mind blown.
My favorite stories in the collection are the epynonomous story, Mudder Tongue (heartbreaking), In the Greenhouse, and The Third Factor. ( )