Da Vinci's Bicycle
A Short Stories, Literature, American Fiction book. Very dense, demanding, erudite stories or essay poems here by a...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 192 pages
- ISBN: 9780811213509 / 811213501
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The long centerpiece story "Au Tombeau de Charles Fourier" is some serious next-level shit. Written in five line bursts, it's a visionary hopscotch that encompasses Dogon rituals, early Modernist icons, DaVinci's workshop, nature worship, and Charles Fourier's ideas on how to structure society. Imagine David Markson's author tetralogy... Very dense, demanding, erudite stories or essay poems here by a writer who is, so far as I know, virtually unknown outside MFA programs and suchlike. One story is a tour-guide musing upon the World Grown Old topos; others feature and combine folks like Gertrude Stein and Robert Walser, and some Greeks and Romans and Victor Hugo for... Really quite excellent although a couple of the stories were a bit lengthy and nonsensical, but all in all it was an exquisite read and I've decided to read everything he ever wrote, or at least die trying.