I am puting everything aside and I am prepared to live with obsessions and delusions; with ups and downs; with noises and silences; with discoveries and losses.
Reading a story written by Alexander Zelenyj is keeping the reader intrigued longer than just during its reading time.
Alexander Zelenyj likes to nurture all the nuances of fear, pain, pleasure and madness – sweet dreams await us all.
Melhor, muito melhor do que os evangelhos.
Livros sem qualquer mandamentos, mas obrigatórios para qualquer leitor que goste de ser desafiado.
Um escritor em constantes descobertas.
Graças a Rhys Hughes descobri a corrente literária Oulipo (não confundir com Olimpo). Elaborei, até, alguns textos utilizando os seus constrangimentos literários.
Rhys Hughes, que sempre revelou um interesse nos constrangimentos literários permitidos pelo Oulipo, tendo produzido algumas peças aqui e ali, oferece agora, não apenas um livro completo de brincadeiras, desafios, puzzles, mas constrangimentos originais – duplo desafio.
This book:
Rhys Hughes pode não ser real, mas este livro é-o certamente! Urra!
Parabéns à Eibonvale Press pela ousadia em publicar esta obra.
A new collection from one of the most powerful voices in slipstream and horror writing is a significant event. This collection of twenty two stories was one of the last that Joel Lane put together before his death in 2013. Frequently taking the form of dark urban fantasy, with his home city of Birmingham as their nucleus, these are intense and often painful stories that linger in the mind for a long time.
from the publisher
These stories are populated by troubled people living troubled lives in troubled places. A pervasive melancholia overhangs the tales, and seeps its way into their fabric (in tandem with the copious amounts of alcohol imbibed by their complicated characters trying to make sense of and otherwise cope with their circumstances). These tales, then, wear their scars plainly, and it’s this fragile, fractured quality which imbues them with their beauty. They are difficult stories, but then they have to be, considering their subject matter.
As a reader and as a writer, I’ve always been drawn to the dichotomy of living in a world made of equal parts beauty and tragedy, and how this kind of living affects us. This effect is on display everywhere in these pages. It’s a bittersweet vision to be sure, and an important one that we should not look away from, not ever.
from the foreword by Alexander Zelenyj
Contents:
A iniciar a leitura.
A nova edição de Experiments at 3 Billion A.M. de Alexander Zelenyj é exibida com outro design, com menos páginas, mas tem o mesmo número de calorias. Aqui o menos é igual ou até mais: temos um introdução por Brian A. Dixon.
introdução por Brian A. Dixon
O layout mais “moderno” permitiu reduzir o número de páginas.
menos páginas
Uma nova aposta muito bem executada pela Eibonvale Press.
Cá me encontro na leitura desta admirável obra de Andrew Hook, publicado pela Eibonvale Press.
Through dreamscape wonderment, fetishism, guilt, loss and love, these twenty-one stories map both physical and internal environments. Hook’s familiar themes of identity, memory, and the nature of reality thread multiple genres to form a dense cartographic exploration of the human condition.
informação da editora
O livro é composto pelas seguintes histórias:
It’s the little things that make this book literally “scream” at you: the bizarre, the despair, the obsessive – the love, the pain.
What I like most about the 21 stories of ‘Human Maps’ is that they don’t offer (m)any answers or conclusions; quite haunting.
A curse for the mind – oh, yeah!
P.S. and this opinion does not say too much either: I’m dysfunctionally cold…
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Andrew hook é um cartógrafo da mente, das emoções, dos medos, dos desejos, das loucuras, dos sonhos…
Eibonvale Press is a small press run by a writer, artist and reader who loves books – It’s as simple as that. It is not intended to be particularly commercial or make large sums of money for me or anyone concerned (though it would be nice if it did, of course!), but it aims to produce beautiful and lovingly-designed editions of excellent writing in modern horror, magic realism and the surreal.
extraído do site da editora
Até há data todos os livros publicados pela Eibonvale Press, e lidos, não me têm desiludido.
Where Are We Going edited by Allen Ashley está a ser lido.
Vou comentar cada conto com o máximo de 10 palavras.
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Outra antologia com imensa qualidade. Allen Ashley sabe o que faz; a Eivonvale Press publica o que deve.
Esta nova – ampliada – edição, publicada pela Eibonvale Press, tem mais 2 histórias do que a edição da Ex Occidente Press e continua a ser um mimo.
É sempre um prazer (re)descobrir Rhys Hughes.
Estou a ler (reler) este livro, Defeated Dogs, extraordinário de Quentin S. Crisp. Uma leitura, como gosto de dizer, sumarenta.
Um verdadeiro festim para a mente, where imagination triumphs over reason and logic or vice versa – outstanding!
Another memorable book published by Eibonvale Press.
