Shadowplay
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In Java, a master of the shadow-puppet theater seeks to possess-by his art-a woman, who perishes as though by the contagion of his unnatural desire. Shadowplay is a meditation on story-telling as an act of seizure, a parable of obsession and of the danger of confounding the real with its representations. *** "Stories compensate for lives unlived. They are what Norman Lock, or his avatar Guntur, calls shadows, negative reflections on a backlit screen, comprising, through artistry and brief illumination, ghosts. Lock's teller is imprisoned by darkness, captivated by warriors and princesses no longer, if ever, living. Death becomes a distance from which the voices of these unliving return. It is a journey as delicious as it is threatening." -R.M. Berry *** "Wise up and get all you can of Lock. His writing was written by a writer exquisite in the singularity (read for this "genius") of his utterance." -Gordon Lish *** " Lock's] prose is melodial, and alert to every signal from the unseen." -Gary Lutz
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0963753630
ISBN13:9780963753632
Release Date:October 2009
Publisher:Ellipsis Press
Length:138 Pages
Weight:0.38 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"
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