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^ Read * The Wavering Knife: Stories by Brian Evenson ê eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Wavering Knife: Stories Evenson's enigmatic names-Thurm, Bein, Hatcher, Burlun-placeable landscapes, and barren rooms all combine to create a semblance of conceptual abstraction, as though the material universe had come to exist inside someone's head.Small wonder that Evenson's work has attracted so much attention among philosophers, literary critics, and other speculative intelligences, for it continuously projects a tantalizing absence, as though there were some key or code that, if only we knew it, would illuminate
| Title | : | The Wavering Knife: Stories |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.76 (858 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1573661139 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 205 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-17 |
| Language | : | English |
Harrowing (Evenson makes us want to check the word's literal meaning) as they are, they take place just beyond the numbed moment where cruelty and craziness grow banal." -Samuel R. "These tales by a modern Poe occur under an immense pressure of language, insight, and observation. Delany, author of The Mad Man
Evenson's enigmatic names-Thurm, Bein, Hatcher, Burlun-placeable landscapes, and barren rooms all combine to create a semblance of conceptual abstraction, as though the material universe had come to exist inside someone's head.Small wonder that Evenson's work has attracted so much attention among philosophers, literary critics, and other speculative intelligences, for it continuously projects a tantalizing absence, as though there were some key or code that, if only we knew it, would illuminate everything. Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to readers of his earlier works, Evenson's Kafkaesque allegories entice the mind while stubbornly disordering it. Here, as
"Staggeringly Great" according to Lydia M. Netzer. Half of these stories are brutal, relentless, and cold. The others present a lighter fare. The latter and lighter group are about silly men and the dumb things they do and say -- from the Promisekeeper group that meets in a bar to the guy who tries to set up a church in Walmart, to the pair of redneck gravediggers who have so much trouble getting their corpse into a shallow hole in hard packed dirt that they chop him up, pee on him, eviscerate him, stomp on him, and eventually throw what's left of him into a ravine and pretend to cover up the grave. What happens next? The family and minister come over the hill, with the coffin he was supp. Dark Tales of Brutal Reality and Repression That We Would Recognize in Daily Life Wildness Brian Evenson, ex-communicated from the Mormon Church and his teaching position at BYU for his writing, is a literary portal into the dark corners of everyday life. In some of these stories he takes direct aim at his former church and its followers; a great example is "The Prophets", a tale of simple men empowered with a vision from god that includes the use of a shovel and the restoration of the dead prophets of olden days. But, in others, he finds an ample target in "The Promisekeepers", where a male bonding group under the banner of the title's namesake meets in a bar and shares moments of truth and honesty - which, when one member of . Brutal and Funny A few stories miss their mark, but otherwise THE WAVERING KNIFE impresses with its multiplicity of narrators and the astounding predicaments they get themselves into. He has the invention of Wodehouse, but a grimmer state of mind, though one story combines both modes of writing, the tale of the "Promisekeepers," a coterie of heterosexual rednecks who meet at a tavern with a man's name on it (so women won't distract them) to jaw over their problems with the opposite sex. When one of them confesses a shocking secret, the others react in amusing ways and the scene ends with a frightening shivaree. Though many of the stories are in the first
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