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Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed
by
Jacob Wren (Goodreads Author)
Set in a dystopian near-future, Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed is a novel - a kind of post-capitalist soap opera - about a group of people who regularly attend 'the meetings.' At the meetings they have agreed to talk, and only talk, about how to re-ignite the left, for fear if they were to do more, if they were to actually engage in real acts of resistan...more
Paperback, 150 pages
Published
September 9th 2010
by Pedlar Press
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Once again, I'm going to NOT give a rating. This is often the case in reviews I write of poetry bks & somewhat less often in the case of fiction - wch is what this is. When I don't rate something I read it's usually b/c any rating that I give it will be misleading. If I gave this a 5 star rating I'd be implying that I consider it to be on par w/ Joyce's "Finnegans Wake", eg, wch I don't. If I give it 4 stars it might convey the enthusiasm I had when reading it but still overrate it. It I giv...more
'The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are not necessarily true.'
Jacob Wren writes and thinks and expresses and challenges so well that he is an artist that simply cannot be ignored. REVENGE FANTASIES OF THE POLITICALLY DISPOSSESSED is a novel, a well-crafted story with indelible characters that draw the reader into the story with the power of magnets, but it is so very much more. This book is a compelling examination of the empire of capitalism and the possible direction of the future u...more
Jacob Wren writes and thinks and expresses and challenges so well that he is an artist that simply cannot be ignored. REVENGE FANTASIES OF THE POLITICALLY DISPOSSESSED is a novel, a well-crafted story with indelible characters that draw the reader into the story with the power of magnets, but it is so very much more. This book is a compelling examination of the empire of capitalism and the possible direction of the future u...more
I am enjoying the feedback I am getting from bringing this part of the week here @ The Scoop. I try to bring as many authors to the forefront as I can. As I was discussing with Thomas White during our Wednesday blogtalk interview (feel free to listen to the archived show) there are many excellent authors out there waiting to find an audience. Today I would like to present two: this and later on today The Chinese Conspiracy by John Mariotti. Different, unique, humorous, I can continue on, but let...more
Ok, despite not being a politically aware person - AT ALL - I really enjoyed this. I was hooked immediately. The style of writing is not commercial at all, and I think that's what drew me in. I was curious. Very curious. And it kept me up at night longer than usual because it kept me curious.
Ask me what it's about? Um, its hard to summarise in a few short sentences without sounding boring, because it's actually quite stunningly plotless. It's a plotless page turner. That is just genius in my opi...more
Ask me what it's about? Um, its hard to summarise in a few short sentences without sounding boring, because it's actually quite stunningly plotless. It's a plotless page turner. That is just genius in my opi...more
(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.)
Rarely does a book come along with a strong academic bent that really blows me away; but man, it sure was the case with Jacob Wren's Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed, the first of several books I recently received from Canadian small publisher Pedlar Press. And that's because Wren manages...more
Rarely does a book come along with a strong academic bent that really blows me away; but man, it sure was the case with Jacob Wren's Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed, the first of several books I recently received from Canadian small publisher Pedlar Press. And that's because Wren manages...more
I read it because I saw Jacob Wren at some theatrical event in Latvia. He had a presentation about cooperation, capitalism or something like that, but what I really remembered was his very exact way with words. So when his book came out I ordered it right away and was not disappointed. It's a witty, pessimistic, emotional book about political activism, disillusionment and besides that, art.
different things get you: some sections romantic and conceptually smart, others filled with a carefully self-doubting and insightful political analysis. but the aspect that i most admired was an honesty and willingness for risk that's hard to pinpoint but which was very moving.
Narrative how narrative was meant to be written, and read. Brutally darkly comic indictment of the political left’s successes and failures. Starkly realistic depiction of human sexual interaction and its fallouts.
pedlar press, one to watch. Wren's 7 part interconnected novel is a cynical and sarcastic view of an unnamed superpower that is out of control with hubris, greed, and Orwellian logic of violence, but let's face it, this is about usa, and death throes(?) of capitalism. my kinda fiction :)
I have things to say about this book. Things that will be published in the last issue of Porchlight: http://porchlightzine.com.
Everything Jacob Wren touches and interests me, excites me -- he's both sophisticated and innocent in attitude -- he's a kind of wise old man and open-hearted lover. With his vivacious ideas, word play, and the serious and inane served up on a plate -- Wren lifts my spirits, intellectual and other, because to know he's writing so beautifully in this mad, sad world is a wonderful thing.
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Reviews that can be found on the internet:
http://radicalcut.blogspot.ca/2012/01...
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Reviews that can be found on the internet:
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Jacob Wren is a writer and maker of eccentric performances. His books include: Unrehearsed Beauty, Families Are Formed Through Copulation and Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed. As co-artistic director of Montreal-based interdisciplinary group PME-ART he has co-created the performances: En français comme en anglais, it's easy to criticize (1998), Individualism Was A Mistake (2008),...more
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