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Entering Fire (Paperback, 1st City Lights ed)
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Entering Fire (Paperback, 1st City Lights ed)
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This startling and brilliantly comic novel tells the stories of two
men: a father and his estranged son. Lamprias de Bergerac is a
gentle mystic and amateur botanist who spends his middle-aged years
in an erotic utopia deep in the Amazonian jungle, collecting
specimens of rare orchids and ultimately finding Cucla, the young
and free-spirited native woman who has become the love of his life.
Meanwhile, his demented son Septimus is raised by his mother in
prewar Europe, seething with hatred of the father who abandoned
him. He rises to power in Nazi-occupied France, where he goes mad
in an obsessive pursuit of racial purity. Rikki Ducornet has a gift
for combining the horrific with the hilarious, the realistic with
the fantastic. Through a wildly inventive narrative, Entering Fire
scrutinizes the sources of fascist mentality in nations and,
potentially, in all humans. "Linguistically explosive and socially
relevant, [her]works are solid evidence that Rikki Ducornet is one
of the most interesting writers around...We are living in an age of
intellectual and emotional starvation that is largely without
spirituality, cynical about social change and disconnected from the
natural world. We need writers to look at these difficult issues in
a sophisticated manner. Ducornet has done this. She is the mirror
of our innermost selves. And she gives us back to
ourselves--despairing , hopeful, active, contemplative, fractured
but surviving, playful, even happy sometimes, and always
whole...Ducornet's villains have the best lines ...one only has to
think of Hitler or PolPot or any of our assorted tyrants to know
that Ducornet's figures are ...taken from life."--The Nation
"Entering Fire displays a cheerfully gruesome audacity and an
imagination both lively and bizarre."--The New York Times "Entering
Fire is about the metaphoric and potentially evil properties of
language; it is about origins and motives of myth-making. This is a
novel of ideas (often strange ideas) that is sustained throughout
by brilliant writing."--London Sunday Times "Far from being an
escapist fantasy, Entering Fire takes on some of the biggest issues
of the 20th century...For sheer power, inventiveness and verbal
density, [it] is the best read I've come across for a long time."
--The Observer "A drastically beautiful comic writer who stitches
sentences together as if Proust had gone into partnership with
Lenny Bruce."--City Limits "...imaginative and unbridled
fantasy."--Le Monde "...an imagination and a style as captivating
as it is devastating."--Lire "Unlike anything you've ever read
before."--L'Express Rikki Ducornet has a gift for combining the
horrific with the hilarious, the realistic with the fantastic.
Through a wildly inventive narrative, Entering Fire scrutinizes the
sources of fascist mentality in nations and, potentially, in all
humans.
General
Imprint: |
City Lights Books
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2001 |
First published: |
2001 |
Authors: |
Rikki Ducornet
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Dimensions: |
203 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
168 |
Edition: |
1st City Lights ed |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-87286-355-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-87286-355-7 |
Barcode: |
9780872863552 |
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