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VII
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Kyle Muntz (Goodreads Author)
In a strange, sometimes unrecognizable Europe, VII is the fictional autobiography in seven parts of a playwright whose life might or might not be influenced by his own plays, an account that seems to reshape the world around him as it is written. A decadent libertine in a macabre city, our protagonist chronicles a history of sordid affairs mingled with impossible journeys,...more
Paperback, 284 pages
Published
February 2012
by Enigmatic Ink
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You can call VII a lot of things; a book of the fantastic, a surreal romp through Europe, a fictional autobiography. It encompasses both the real and unreal, and weaves a tale that’ll leave you wanting more. At its heart, the story is about Edward, a playwright, and his journeys through a semi-real Europe. Violence, lust, political machinations, and writing intrigues surround him at every corner. The pros...more
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You can call VII a lot of things; a book of the fantastic, a surreal romp through Europe, a fictional autobiography. It encompasses both the real and unreal, and weaves a tale that’ll leave you wanting more. At its heart, the story is about Edward, a playwright, and his journeys through a semi-real Europe. Violence, lust, political machinations, and writing intrigues surround him at every corner. The pros...more
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"Reason has no grasp here," is as good a token as any to be found in these pages. VII's ars poetica comes on page CXVI: "I had...begun to suspect that travel took place according to movement within myself, rather than any spatial factor." For though there is spatial movement, action, interaction -- scene -- all of it can contract in a sentence and leave us wondering whether what we've read is: "I must insist that this account is not fabricated, but merely very flawed." Serial selves? Hallucinati...more
I found this book dark and twisted, and I mean that in the best possible way. The text itself is secretive and wily and I doubt that a single reading will yield up all of its secrets. But, for the intrepid explorer, much awaits. It is complex and fascinating, surreal at the same time that it is visceral. I don't think I could summarize it easily, but I did enjoy reading it quite a bit. In any event, it is an extremely impressive piece of writing.
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Kyle Muntz is the author of "Voices" (Enigmatic Ink, 2010), "Sunshine in the Valley" (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2011), "VII" (Enigmatic Ink, 2012), and "Green Lights", forthcoming from Civil Coping Mechanisms in late 2013.
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“The life of an artist is not so romantic as some might suppose.”
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“I wish to try my hand at a novel," he said. "Just scribbling, I assure you, but it strikes me as such a noble art, requiring none of the monetary resources of opera or drama, nor the erudition of poetry. Perchance a publisher could be found. I'd be satisfied by the printing of even a score of copies, if only to hold the bound work in my hands. It gives a unique satisfaction, I assume, the writing of a novel.”
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