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Houses of Ravicka

Author : Renee Gladman
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1948980126
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book Houses of Ravicka written by Renee Gladman and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “More Kafka than Kafka, Renee Gladman’s achievement ranks alongside many of Borges’ in its creation of a fantastical landscape with deep psychological impact.” —Jeff VanderMeer Since 2010 writer and artist Renee Gladman has placed fantastic and philosophical stories in the invented city-state of Ravicka, a Ruritanian everyplace with its own gestural language, poetic architecture, and inexplicable physics. As Ravicka has grown, so has Gladman's project, spilling out from her fiction—Event Factory, The Ravickians, and Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge—into her nonfiction (Calamities) and even visual art (Prose Architectures). The result is a project unlike any other in American letters today, a fictional world that spans not only multiple books but different genres, even different art forms. In Houses of Ravicka, the city's comptroller, author of Regulating the Book of Regulations, seems to have lost a house. It is not where it's supposed to be, though an invisible house on the far side of town, which corresponds to the missing house, remains appropriately invisible. Inside the invisible house, a nameless Ravickian considers how she came to the life she is living, and investigates the deep history of Ravicka—that mysterious city-country born of Renee Gladman's philosophical, funny, audacious, extraordinary imagination.

The Ravickians

Author : Renee Gladman
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 098446932X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book The Ravickians written by Renee Gladman and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of Gladman's acclaimed Ravicka trilogy continues the author's profound and fantastical meditation on translation, architecture, and the ephemeral. The Ravickians narrates the day-long odyssey of Luswage Amini, the Great Ravickian Novelist, who journeys through the city to attend the reading of an old friend. Where the earlier volume, Event Factory, explores Ravicka from the outside, via a visitor's attempt to understand and interpret that city's irreducible strangeness, The Ravickians faces the problem of translation from the perspective of an insider who struggles, throughout her account, to make plain the political and personal crises of Ravickian life that she knows to be untranslatable.

Event Factory

Author : Renee Gladman
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1948980118
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book Event Factory written by Renee Gladman and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “More Kafka than Kafka, Renee Gladman’s achievement ranks alongside many of Borges’ in its creation of a fantastical landscape with deep psychological impact.” —Jeff VanderMeer A “linguist-traveler” arrives by plane to Ravicka, a city of yellow air in which an undefined crisis is causing the inhabitants to flee. Although fluent in the native language, she quickly finds herself on the outside of every experience. Things happen to her, events transpire, but it is as if the city itself, the performance of life there, eludes her. Setting out to uncover the source of the city’s erosion, she is beset by this other crisis—an ontological crisis—as she struggles to retain a sense of what is happening. Event Factory is the first in a series of novels (also available are the second, The Ravickians; the third, Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge; and the fourth, Houses of Ravicka) that Renee Gladman is writing about the invented city-state of Ravicka, a foreign “other” place fraught with the crises of American urban experience, not least the fundamental problem of how to move through the world at all.

To After That (TOAF)

Author : Renee Gladman
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1948980266
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book To After That (TOAF) written by Renee Gladman and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm-spirited elegy to an abandoned work, brilliantly comic and wryly contemplative, by one of the great artist-investigators of our time. Originally published in 2008 in the groundbreaking Atelos series, To After That (TOAF) introduced a new kind of writing—somewhere between criticism and memoir and philosophy—that Renee Gladman has continued to explore in books like Calamities and My Lesbian Novel. TOAF is a recuperative song, an effort to give space and life to an abandoned project, but it is also, itself, a beautiful meditation on process and distance and duration, and a reminder that time is the subject of any writing.

Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge

Author : Renee Gladman
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 0984469397
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge written by Renee Gladman and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge, it’s the sentence that is alive and that is also a kind of architecture or landscape.” —Amina Cain “Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge is the third volume of Renee Gladman's magnificent, melancholy series about the city-state of Ravicka, or about the architectures of its absence. It is tempting to read the Ravickian books as an extended allegory—of architecture itself, perhaps, except that architecture is already half-allegorical, its every element raised to prefigure whatever meanings can make their way to them. If any can. In Ravicka, meanings—indeed most contact of any kind—remain in abeyance, building, in absentia, the constitutive negative spaces of the narrative. There is a plot; it lays out zones of sheer ambience. Experiences, of which there are many, unfold as a redolent lingering in the structures of immateriality, the radical realities of the insubstantial. Gladman is a philosopher of architecture, though not that of buildings. Rather, she thinks (and writes) the drifts, partitions, and immobilities of identity, affect, communication, the very possibility of being human. Profound, compelling—haunting, even—the story of Ravicka is astonishingly ours.” (Lyn Hejinian)

Houses of Ravicka

Author : Renee Gladman
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 0997366664
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (973 download)

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Calamities

Author : Renee Gladman
Publisher : Wave Books
ISBN 13 : 1950268284
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Calamities written by Renee Gladman and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER of the 2017 Firecracker Award for Nonfiction from CLMP A collection of linked essays concerned with the life and mind of the writer by one of the most original voices in contemporary literature. Each essay takes a day as its point of inquiry, observing the body as it moves through time, architecture, and space, gradually demanding a new logic and level of consciousness from the narrator and reader.

Prose Architectures

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940696461
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Prose Architectures written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A book of pen-and-ink drawings by artist, poet, and fiction writer, Renee Gladman"--

How the Dead Dream

Author : Lydia Millet
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593767900
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book How the Dead Dream written by Lydia Millet and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2024-10-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Los Angeles real estate developer consumed by power and political ambitions finds his orderly, upwardly mobile life thrown into chaos by the sudden appearance of his nutty mother, who's been deserted by T.'s now out–of–the–closet father After his mother's suicide attempt and two other deaths, T. finds himself increasingly estranged from his latest project: a retirement community in the middle of the California desert. As he juggles family, business, and social responsibilities, T. begins to nurture a curious obsession with vanishing species. Soon he's living a double life, building sprawling subdivisions by day and breaking into zoos at night to be near the animals. A series of calamities forces T. to a tropical island, where he takes a Conrad–esque journey up a river into the remote jungle. Millet's devastating wit, psychological acuity, and remarkable empathy for flawed humankind contend with her vision of a world slowly murdering itself.

Trance

Author : Christopher Sorrentino
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429932724
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Trance written by Christopher Sorrentino and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1974: A tiny band of self-styled urban guerrillas, calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army, abducts a newspaper heiress, who then abruptly announces that she has adopted the guerrilla name "Tania" and chosen to remain with her former captors. Has she been brainwashed? Coerced? Could she be sincere? Why would such a nice girl disavow her loving parents, her adoring fiancé, her comfortable home? Why would she suddenly adopt the SLA's cri de coeur, "Death to the Fascist Insect that Preys Upon the Life of the People"? Soon most of the SLA are dead, killed in a suicidal confrontation with police in Los Angeles, forcing Tania and her two remaining comrades--the pompous and abusive General Teko and his duplicitous lieutenant, Yolanda--into hiding, where they will remain for the next sixteen months. Trance, Christopher Sorrentino's mesmerizing and brilliant second novel, traces this fugitive period, leading the reader on a breathtaking, hilarious, and heartbreaking underground tour across a beleaguered America, in the company of scam artists, visionaries, cultists, and a mismatched gang of middle-class people who typify the guiding conceit of their time, that of self-renovation. Along the way he tells the story of a nation divided against itself--parents and children, men and women, black and white; a story of hidebound tradition and radical change, of truth and propaganda, of cynicism and idealism; a story as transfixing and relevant today as it was then. Insightful, compassionate, scathingly funny, and moving, Trance is a virtuoso performance, placing Christopher Sorrentino in the first rank of American novelists. Trance is a 2005 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

Poemland

Author : Chelsey Minnis
Publisher : Wave Books
ISBN 13 : 1933517417
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Poemland written by Chelsey Minnis and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems both punishing and radiant. No one is writing like Minnis, and no one should dare.

The Plains

Author : Gerald Murnane
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 192535590X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book The Plains written by Gerald Murnane and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the families of the plains—obsessed with their land and history, their culture and mythology—and of the man who ventured into their world. First published in 1982, The Plains is a mesmerising work of startling originality. This handsome new hardback edition is introduced by Ben Lerner, author of the internationally acclaimed novels Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04, and a work of criticism, The Hatred of Poetry.

Juice

Author : Renee Gladman
Publisher : Kelsey Street Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Juice written by Renee Gladman and published by Kelsey Street Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. African American Studies. Gladman wields an idiosyncratic skill with description and characters that has drawn praise and attention from her contemporaries. JUICE describes a world where seemingly minor obsessions and details (like the narrator's almost random preference for juice) can structure and develop an entire story, down to its tone and style. As her narrator puts it: "So far it has been sex and leaves that keep me alive."

Fra Keeler

Author : Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 0984469362
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Fra Keeler written by Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debut novel from PEN/Faulkner award-winning author of Call Me Zebra and Savage Tongues is a comic psychological thriller, an absurdist journey into the heart of darkness. A man purchases a house, the house of Fra Keeler, moves in, and begins investigating the circumstances of the latter's death. Yet the investigation quickly turns inward, and the reality it seeks to unravel seems only to grow stranger, as the narrator pursues not leads but lines of thought, most often to hideous conclusions.

The Activist

Author : Renee Gladman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Activist written by Renee Gladman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. African American Studies. Straddling fiction and poetry, Renee Gladman's writing operates on the level of the sentence, constructing suprise and oblique meanings at every turn, and somehow managing the supremely difficult trick of both engaging and pushing the reader. "THE ACTIVIST begins in the middle of a revolution....There is a bridge that may or may not have been bombed. People speak in nonsense and cannot stop themselves. In the mids of all this, the language of news reports mixes with the language of confession. The art of this beautifully written book is in how it touchingly illustrates that relations between humans and cities are linked in a more complex interface than most realize"--Juliana Spahr.

Primeval and Other Times

Author : Olga Tokarczuk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788086264356
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Primeval and Other Times written by Olga Tokarczuk and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tokarczuk's third novel, Primeval and Other Times was awarded the Passport Prize in 1996 And The Koscielski Prize in 1997, which established the author as one of the leading voices in Polish letters. it is set in the mythical village of Primeval in the very heart of Poland, which is populated by eccentric, archetypal characters. The village, a microcosm of Europe, Is guarded by four archangels, from whose perspective the novel chronicles the lives of Primeval's inhabitants over the course of the feral 20th century. In prose that is forceful and direct, The narrative follows Poland's tortured political history from 1914 To The contemporary era And The episodic brutality that is visited on ordinary village life. Yet Primeval and Other Times is a novel of universal dimension that does not dwell on the parochial. A stylized fable as well as epic allegory about the inexorable grind of time, The clash between modernity (the masculine) and nature (the feminine), it has been translated into most European languages. Tokarczuk has said of the novel: "I always wanted to write a book such as this. One that creates and describes a world. it is the story of a world that, like all things living, Is born, develops, and then dies." Kitchens, bedrooms, childhood memories, dreams and insomnia, reminiscences, and amnesia - these are part of the existential and acoustic spaces from which the voices of Tokarczuk's tale come, her "boxes in boxes."

Ambient Parking Lot

Author : Pamela Lu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976736431
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Ambient Parking Lot written by Pamela Lu and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Part fiction, part earnest mockumentary, AMBIENT PARKING LOT follows a band of musicians as they wander the parking structures of urban downtown and greater suburbia in quest of the ultimate ambient noise—one that promises to embody their historical moment and deliver them up to the heights of their self-important artistry. Along the way, they make sporadic forays into lyric while contending with doubts, delusions, miscalculations, mutinies, and minor triumphs. This saga peers into the wreckage of a post-9/11 landscape and embraces the comedy and poignancy of failed utopia.