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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Revisionaries (edizione 2019)di A. R. Moxon (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is the type of book that probably takes multiple readings to fully understand - multiple threads at once, twisting into itself. The last 180 pages or so actually jump from one timeline to another while still blending into one another, it's a truly masterful stroke from a first-time author. There are footnotes and even on one page, a cartoon. You will be dazzled by the writing, sometimes frustrated by the leaps, but in the end you will be changed. I'd say this will make a great movie one day but I'm not even sure how it could be done, it's so wrapped in on itself. I loved it but I'm not sure I understand it. I will be thinking about it for a long time to come.
This is a book that sprawls into meta-fractals sentence on sentence and teaches you to feel Zeno's Paradox in your body as you bend and contort yourself into the reading of it, and is composed in such a way as to make it impossible to skim, so if I sound exhausted reviewing it, well, I am. But more than exhausted, I'm almost irritated by how much I enjoyed it. One shudders to imagine what Moxon would do with the means to make a horror movie ... It all makes for an engrossing setup whose suspense is difficult to resist. But cheap entertainment usually comes at a cost ... Initial intrigue has devolved into plain magic, and magic is a dangerous ingredient for a work that has explicitly signaled a desire to address questions of faith and social justice. For magic will gift you superficial momentum, true, but only while reducing the power of the quotidian. . . . [A]s this bizarre story expands like the Big Bang, sections start to cohere around what are essentially theological themes. The result is “Paradise Lost” but with more gangsters: a zany interrogation of religious concepts in a wholly secular context. The fight over who gets control over young Gordy is really a struggle for the messianic power he wields in this fantastical world. And when the tale soars into the realm of superheroes, it explores the moral complications of omnipotence and the paradoxes of theodicy. In his own strange way, Moxon has translated his eschatological revelations into the lurid colors of a comic book universe. Grand Rapids is the new Patmos. If you make it through this brazen novel, the only thing you’ll want to do is find another survivor to talk about what it meant and what you missed. Call me. . . . [I]t sometimes feels like Moxon is a puppet master who has lost all control, only to masterfully pick up the strings to get his marionettes dancing again in an entirely unexpected way. Delving into memory and belief as well as complex questions about authorship and ownership, Moxon’s astounding novel, bursting at the seams with ideas and pathos, is a breathless demonstration of masterful storytelling. If the yarn doesn’t always add up and runs a bit long, it’s good fun to wind the characters up and watch them go. Moxon’s storyline isn’t easy to follow, but it makes for a tasty entertainment.
"A postmodern epic of a modern day street preacher who risks everything to help a prophet flee a figure who may be God. THE REVISIONARIES is a maximalist work of fiction, where the social novel meets comic book antics. At its heart is the leader of a ragtag parish located in a gangland corner of a city that may or may not be Knoxville, TN; a sadistic scion to a Blue Ridge family dynasty, a history professor escaped from a nearby mental asylum, and a superhuman that blinks in and out of existence. The entanglement of their lives will literally collide heaven and earth in ways only the brilliant A. R. Moxon could envision"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Update 27.2.20: I'm realizing that I'm in deep mourning for this book having ended. ( )