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Azorno
Set in modern Europe, the novel is about five women and two men. One of the men is a writer, the other is the main character of this novel. All of the women are pregnant by the main character. The questions then arise: who is the narrator? Has someone been killed? Is someone crazy? And, whose book is this anyway? The story ends with a struggle between two merged characters...more
paperback, 112 pages
Published
July 29th 2009
by New Directions
(first published July 2009)
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A love story as if told (and retold and retold...) through a broken mirror or kaleidoscope, or perhaps a kaleidoscope with a cracked lens. The effect is breathtaking.
Within a second my blood, thoughts, nerves, and senses were swept back ten years and I felt like a diver who finds himself at the bottom of the ocean one minute and on solid ground the next, unable to hear whether the others are saying he's alive or dead because he's encapsulated in a silence as vast as if he'd bro...more
Within a second my blood, thoughts, nerves, and senses were swept back ten years and I felt like a diver who finds himself at the bottom of the ocean one minute and on solid ground the next, unable to hear whether the others are saying he's alive or dead because he's encapsulated in a silence as vast as if he'd bro...more
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danish poet and novelist inger christensen was widely considered a strong contender for the nobel prize before her death at 73 in january of 2009. azorno was written in the late 1960's, but has only now, some four decades later, found its way into english translation. perhaps best described as a metafictional work, azorno is a labyrinthine novel where the line between author, narrator, and character blurs quite easily. the reader is never quite certain whether the reality as presented on the ...more
Holy shit. This book is amazing. And hard to describe. It is constructed almost symphonically, with motifs repeated within a series of variations. A few basic narrative elements are told and retold, but morph into contradictory stories. Yeah, I'm failing pretty bad at describing this. Just go read it, and then describe it to me so I can do a better job the next time.
A very confusing and... special book. In the start it's very hard to keep up with but as you read on you kind of grow into the book. You feel what the women feel. You start to think like the women think.
I'm sure it has a deep and meaningful purpose but I didn't catch it and I'm not sure I will if I read it again.
I'm sure it has a deep and meaningful purpose but I didn't catch it and I'm not sure I will if I read it again.
The Center excerpted this in Wherever I Lie Is Your Bed.
This was a strange book, and I didn't understand what was going on all the time, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I didn't get far in this one. While there's nothing quite like really good metafiction, I'm glad that it's fairly easy to spot the stuff that just isn't going to do it for me. Alas, metafiction is one literary genre that is easy to over-complicate and fill with tedium.
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Inger Christensen Azorno, translated from the Danish by Denise Newman (New York: New Directions, 2009)
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Inger Christensen Azorno, translated from the Danish by Denise Newman (New York: New Directions, 2009)
See my review will appear in the next issue of Rain Taxi
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Inger Christensen was born in Vejle, Demark, in 1935. Initially she studied medicine, but then trained as a teacher and worked at the College of Art in Holbæck from 1963–64. Although she has also written a novel, stories, essays, radio plays, a drama and an opera libretto, Christensen is primarily known for her linguistically skilled and powerful poetry.
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