9781962847209 - Landscapes of the Exiled von Catlin, Alan (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Muy bueno. : Landscapes of the Exiled es una obra literaria que invita a un viaje introspectivo y surrealista a través de paisajes interiores. La narrativa comienza en una isla específica pero anónima, donde la realidad se entrelaza con lo onírico, presentando imágenes de aves que chocan contra cristales y rocas oceánicas que parecen cobrar vida como focas amenazantes. A medida que el lector se adentra en el interior, el viaje se vuelve más oscuro, explorando la vida de exiliados del mundo contemporáneo cuyas acciones cotidianas se transforman en actos de agresión física o visiones de pesadilla.Escrito a lo largo de cuarenta años, el libro está profundamente influenciado por poetas surrealistas europeos como Ritsos y Tranströmer. La obra culmina en una travesía literal por la oscuridad del alma, guiada por una voz incorpórea surgida de un sueño, donde los monólogos interiores y las sombras difuminan la línea entre el pensamiento y el habla, buscando finalmente un amanecer incierto en un valle lejano. EAN: 9781962847209 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción|Fantasía Título: Landscapes of the Exiled Autor: Alan Catlin Editorial: Dos Madres Press Idioma: en Páginas: 124 Formato: tapa blanda.

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Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Landscapes of the Exiled is a journey into the interior. In the beginning we are rooted in a specific, yet unnamed place, an island where birds die against picture window glass and we try to resurrect them. Stationery ocean rocks appear to move and, on closer inspection become giant seals that move inland in a threatening manner. The further we go into the interior, the darker and more surreal the journey becomes until we arrive at a place where the exiles themselves are. These people, places, objects were written over a period of forty years and are heavily inflected by European unnaturalists Ritsos and Transtromer. Neighbors becomes Eumenides who spy on our houses, neighbors beat their dogs to death, and ceaselessly drag garbage to the curb, creating sparks where their metal containers strike the concrete. Girlfriends throw their partner's possessions from second floor windows; a wife makes her end of season turning of the garden into a physical assault of the earth. These neighbors may be rooted to a place but they are exiled from the contemporary world as we know it and become more so as the sequence unfolds. The final section is a literal voyage in the dark, a journey to the end of a night of the soul. Is it a dream or a real journey? The spirit guide is a kind of disembodied voice that has an improbable name, Gladys, and is the product of an actual dream where Gladys offers the poet a corkscrew saying, "You never know when you might need one." The ensuing journey, with corkscrew securely in hand, the poet travels a darkling plain that becomes a steep climb with caves in it, to where? Interior monologues are impressions, expressions of this trek without purpose, other than the trek itself; we keep moving because moving is what we do. At times the thinking and the speaking are indistinguishable like a Beckett play on a dark stage with a drawn blackout curtain between the poet and the exterior voices, places where only the hint of shadow moving is visible. In the end there is a kind of dawning, a place in a valley below where there maybe be a guest house with a picture window that fatally impacts bird's flight patterns.