Murphy
cat malogen
Pogue Mahone was a big fucking book, many thanks to @jenks for recommending, be interested to see what @shiels and @droid might think of it
There’s a point about 400 pages in where you still have no idea where it’s going, who and what the narrator even is, which clues can be believed and the consequences of building up of accumulated layers of the same events from a woman both re-remembering and losing cognitive faculties (around memory) at the same time
Even at 500 pages I was experiencing a swirling gyre of narrative at every line. Names, dates, London, Ireland, sepia newspaper toned dark nights of the 50’s of B Behan into psychedelic paisley into the present. The madness of it, its undercurrents of inter-generational trauma teased out long form. Its relentless dissection of identity. The psychological geography of London from the 50’s to early 70’s from a dying generation.
Resonant story telling of intense focus, the ability to dissect time, elongated and frieze framed. A meditation on ageing, infirmity, vulnerability, the power fallibility and plasticity of memory. Tremendous, if you want a ride rather than a wade through to spring, get some
There’s a point about 400 pages in where you still have no idea where it’s going, who and what the narrator even is, which clues can be believed and the consequences of building up of accumulated layers of the same events from a woman both re-remembering and losing cognitive faculties (around memory) at the same time
Even at 500 pages I was experiencing a swirling gyre of narrative at every line. Names, dates, London, Ireland, sepia newspaper toned dark nights of the 50’s of B Behan into psychedelic paisley into the present. The madness of it, its undercurrents of inter-generational trauma teased out long form. Its relentless dissection of identity. The psychological geography of London from the 50’s to early 70’s from a dying generation.
Resonant story telling of intense focus, the ability to dissect time, elongated and frieze framed. A meditation on ageing, infirmity, vulnerability, the power fallibility and plasticity of memory. Tremendous, if you want a ride rather than a wade through to spring, get some
