“In Renee Gladman’s extraordinary Event Factory, the world in all its languaged variousness adumbrates a ‘yellow-becoming’ map for our deepest internal spelunkings, a map we don’t dare do without as we negotiate, along with our intrepid narrator, the world of Ravicka, the sprawling city, where, we might say, to borrow from Gladman, ‘nothing happens, nothing happens, then everything is ‘said’ to happen. It has the strange glamour of Kafka’s Amerika, this book, but the narrator, lusty and persuasive, is growing up.” -Eileen Myles In Event Factory the details of her dream gleam specifically yet they bob on the surface of a deeper wider abyss we all might be becoming engulfed in. “Renee Gladman has always struck me as being a dreamer-she writes that way and the dreaming seems to construct the architecture of the world unfolding before our reading eyes. 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.Įvent 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. Things happen to her, events transpire, but it is as if the city itself, the performance of life there, eludes her. Although fluent in the native language, she quickly finds herself on the outside of every experience.
Since 2005, she has operated Leon Works, an independent press for experimental prose and other thought-projects based in the sentence, making occasional forays into poetry.“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 VanderMeerĪ “linguist-traveler” arrives by plane to Ravicka, a city of yellow air in which an undefined crisis is causing the inhabitants to flee. She is the author of nine works of prose and one collection of poetry.
in philosophy from Vassar College, and a Master’s in poetics from New College of California. Renee Gladman was born in Atlanta in 1971. 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.
A “linguist-traveler” arrives by plane to Ravicka, a city of yellow air in which an undefined crisis is causing the inhabitants to flee.
0 kommentar(er)
