S. J. Fowler
Auteur de ENEMIGOS ENEMIES. POESIA CONTEMPORANEA DE LA CIUDAD DE MEXICO Y LONDRES
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PROTOTYPE 1 par Jess Chandler
Mostly unintelligible pretention, with a few good bits. Shame, as the book itself is well made and lovely to hold. I might, perhaps, get the latest edition out of curiosity to see whether it's a less deliberately obtuse collection.
½
The sort of book it’s hard to feel fully prepared to write comments about as the way it’s constructed unbalances the reader, challenging them to understand a text that feels as if it is from a slightly shifted reality. The setting is a world that has experienced some kind of radical break with our known one, for uncertain reasons, and the plot unfolds on a small stage that combines the recognizable and the strange, and much of the latter is intentionally presented without any of the “detailed world-building” that is highly valued in mainstream commercial novels that do this sort of thing. In this sense it reminded me of Haydn Middleton’s [b:The Actual Whole of Music|57060576|The Actual Whole of Music|Haydn Middleton|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1613331881l/57060576._SX50_.jpg|89294741], which does something similar. The result is to leave the reader feeling somewhat unmoored, uncertain of a reality that is open to different possible interpretations.
Mueum adds another layer to the challenge in its unusual prose, which bends and shapes itself in ways that are far from straightforward, paragraphs often benefiting from multiple readings in the formation of sense-making in the reader’s mind. It’s an innovative poetic approach to prose, and in this sense Mueum reminds me of Vanessa Onwuemezi’s [b:Dark Neighbourhood|58349688|Dark Neighbourhood|Vanessa Onwuemezi|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1623795965l/58349688._SY75_.jpg|91498306].
To say something of the plot, it is set in a museum and amid the museum’s guards, who patrol the galleries watching out for visitors who attempt to touch the exhibits. The museum has been reconstructed after the continuity breaking event with our known world, and this offers up many possible questions about the presentation of history, genuineness versus falsity, violence in the construction of manufactured rule and order, surveillance, mob psychology in both the acquiescence and rebellion against an imposed order, and more.
In sum I’d say this is a challenging work in both form and content, on the experimental edges of current literature, and well worth the time spent with it if you might enjoy such things. 4.5 rounded up for me.
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Mueum adds another layer to the challenge in its unusual prose, which bends and shapes itself in ways that are far from straightforward, paragraphs often benefiting from multiple readings in the formation of sense-making in the reader’s mind. It’s an innovative poetic approach to prose, and in this sense Mueum reminds me of Vanessa Onwuemezi’s [b:Dark Neighbourhood|58349688|Dark Neighbourhood|Vanessa Onwuemezi|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1623795965l/58349688._SY75_.jpg|91498306].
To say something of the plot, it is set in a museum and amid the museum’s guards, who patrol the galleries watching out for visitors who attempt to touch the exhibits. The museum has been reconstructed after the continuity breaking event with our known world, and this offers up many possible questions about the presentation of history, genuineness versus falsity, violence in the construction of manufactured rule and order, surveillance, mob psychology in both the acquiescence and rebellion against an imposed order, and more.
Even the visitors know this is the new Museum, where you can’t needle a guard and expect nothing. They may argue, as all do, that they were not provoking me, and that my feelings are incidental. Either way, just as I have no one to report my confusions to, so the visitors have no one to complain to. There is no self- broadcasting now, to protect them from themselves. In this regard the world has turned twice over. Like it says in the Spangler Gallery, everything has changed since we were children.
In sum I’d say this is a challenging work in both form and content, on the experimental edges of current literature, and well worth the time spent with it if you might enjoy such things. 4.5 rounded up for me.
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