Call Me Zebra
Autor Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomien Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 iun 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781846884580
ISBN-10: 1846884586
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Alma Books COMMIS
Colecția Alma Books
ISBN-10: 1846884586
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Alma Books COMMIS
Colecția Alma Books
Caracteristici
Praised by the New York Times Book Review as a "tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and cerebral whimsy recall the work of Bolano and Borges."
Notă biografică
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is the author of the novels Fra Keeler and Call Me Zebra, and an Assistant Professor in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Notre Dame. She is the winner of a 2015 Whiting Writers' Award, a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree, and the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, as well as residency fellowships from MacDowell and Ledig House. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, Guernica, Granta, BOMB, and elsewhere. She has lived in New York, Los Angeles, Tehran, Dubai, Valencia, Barcelona, and currently splits her time between South Bend, Indiana and Florence, Italy.
Recenzii
'It's all my blood, this black poison! / I am the sinister mirror / Where the Fury sees herself.' This could also be an ode to the furiously introspective, fiercely literary young narrator of Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi's second novel, Call Me Zebra. [.] In this ferociously intelligent novel, Van der Vliet Oloomi [.] relays Zebra's brainy, benighted struggles as a tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and cerebral whimsy recall the work of Bolaño and Borges.
Zebra is exile as education, history as passion, life as literature, and literature as death.
Oloomi's rich and delightful novel. crackles throughout with wit and absurdity. [Call Me Zebra] is a sharp and genuinely fun picaresque, employing humor and poignancy side-by-side to tell an original and memorable story.
A darkly, funny novel. [and] bombastic homage to the metacriticism of Borges, the Romantic absurdity of Cervantes, and the punk-rock autofictions of Kathy Acker. [Call Me Zebra] is a brilliant, demented, and bizarro book that demands and rewards all the attention a reader might dare to give it.
A sexy complicated affair... geopolitically savvy.
Acerbic wit and a love of literature color this picaresque novel...By turns, hilarious and poignant, painting a magnetic portrait of a young woman you can't help but want to know more about.
What Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts did for gender and sexuality, Call Me Zebra does for the experience of exile.
A major work on the importance of literature.
Hearken ye fellow misfits, migrants, outcasts, squint-eyed bibliophiles, library-haunters and book stall-stalkers: Here is a novel for you.
This book will blow you away. Call Me Zebra is likely to be every book nerd's bizarre dream.
Filled with literature, art and sex, Call Me Zebra is rambling and picaresque, as quirky and funny as its rambunctious narrator. Call Me Zebra is a grand story, but as Zebra describes herself when looking in a mirror, it is also as troubling as literature, as disquieting as language itself.
This fierce meditation, a heady review of literature and philosophy as well as a love story, is a tour de force from the author of Fra Keeler that many will read and reread.
There's something really radical about this epic and ecstatic quest. It's in the tradition of Cervantes' ingenious nobleman, but also deeply in conversation with Borges's Pierre Menard and Kathy Acker's own Don Quixote. The young female narrator of Call Me Zebra luxuriates in the tradition of Enrique Vila-Matas's literary sickness, or Kafka writing that he is made entirely of literature. A hilarious picaresque, perverse and voracious.
A penniless orphaned refugee, Zebra knows she can count on two things: literature and death. She builds a fortress out of both, surviving on fury, on memories and manifestos, until life begins to break through. Can Zebra handle life? Can literature handle Zebra? Reader, go find out! Call Me Zebra is like nothing else I've read, geo-political and bookish and sexy, quite refreshingly nuts and yet a ripping good read. Also, there's a stolen bird! I'd say I couldn't put it down, but Zebra would never approve a cliché, so I'll pay it a compliment she might actually accept: this book metabolized me.
This novel is not about a zebra but about a whole sharp, amazing, malicious and wicked zoo. Please enjoy responsibly.
An arresting exploration of grief alongside a powder keg of a romance.
Zebra is exile as education, history as passion, life as literature, and literature as death.
Oloomi's rich and delightful novel. crackles throughout with wit and absurdity. [Call Me Zebra] is a sharp and genuinely fun picaresque, employing humor and poignancy side-by-side to tell an original and memorable story.
A darkly, funny novel. [and] bombastic homage to the metacriticism of Borges, the Romantic absurdity of Cervantes, and the punk-rock autofictions of Kathy Acker. [Call Me Zebra] is a brilliant, demented, and bizarro book that demands and rewards all the attention a reader might dare to give it.
A sexy complicated affair... geopolitically savvy.
Acerbic wit and a love of literature color this picaresque novel...By turns, hilarious and poignant, painting a magnetic portrait of a young woman you can't help but want to know more about.
What Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts did for gender and sexuality, Call Me Zebra does for the experience of exile.
A major work on the importance of literature.
Hearken ye fellow misfits, migrants, outcasts, squint-eyed bibliophiles, library-haunters and book stall-stalkers: Here is a novel for you.
This book will blow you away. Call Me Zebra is likely to be every book nerd's bizarre dream.
Filled with literature, art and sex, Call Me Zebra is rambling and picaresque, as quirky and funny as its rambunctious narrator. Call Me Zebra is a grand story, but as Zebra describes herself when looking in a mirror, it is also as troubling as literature, as disquieting as language itself.
This fierce meditation, a heady review of literature and philosophy as well as a love story, is a tour de force from the author of Fra Keeler that many will read and reread.
There's something really radical about this epic and ecstatic quest. It's in the tradition of Cervantes' ingenious nobleman, but also deeply in conversation with Borges's Pierre Menard and Kathy Acker's own Don Quixote. The young female narrator of Call Me Zebra luxuriates in the tradition of Enrique Vila-Matas's literary sickness, or Kafka writing that he is made entirely of literature. A hilarious picaresque, perverse and voracious.
A penniless orphaned refugee, Zebra knows she can count on two things: literature and death. She builds a fortress out of both, surviving on fury, on memories and manifestos, until life begins to break through. Can Zebra handle life? Can literature handle Zebra? Reader, go find out! Call Me Zebra is like nothing else I've read, geo-political and bookish and sexy, quite refreshingly nuts and yet a ripping good read. Also, there's a stolen bird! I'd say I couldn't put it down, but Zebra would never approve a cliché, so I'll pay it a compliment she might actually accept: this book metabolized me.
This novel is not about a zebra but about a whole sharp, amazing, malicious and wicked zoo. Please enjoy responsibly.
An arresting exploration of grief alongside a powder keg of a romance.