Alice Knott - A Novel

Zusatztext Praise for Alice Knott : “There’s an exceptional amount of intention and control on display in the telling of this story. . . . Don’t expect a conventional reading experience.  Alice Knott  is a meditation on art and perception whose form seems to serve as both a meta-comment on the function of the novel, and a challenge to the expectations that a reader should bring to one. It’s rare for me to enjoy and value a book on those terms, but this one worked for me. And even more to the point, I respected it for insisting that I rise to its challenge.” — The New York Times Book Review “ Alice Knott  signals Blake Butler as our most imaginative writer.”  — The Believer “Is this the first great quarantine novel? . . . . Blake Butler’s new novel  Alice Knott  was written well before the emergence of COVID-19, yet it resonates so strongly with life under lockdown that one would be forgiven for thinking otherwise. . . .  Alice Knott  often provokes the same question that watching the news in 2020 tends to provoke: How real is this?”  — The Nation “Timely and bold . . . [Butler’s] fiction exhibits an alarmingly masterful grasp of language that effectively haunts readers. . . . The writing is challenging and transgressive, but it is also dripping with perfectly rendered imagery of the macabre. . . .  Alice Knott  uses language to carve through the darkness. Here, like with his earlier work[,] Butler has proven himself to be a cartographer of the psyche. A camera pointed on masked individuals drenching a painting with kerosene before setting a match to it; the modern American home, idyllic and clandestine on its exterior while inside, familiar spaces like bedrooms become war zones, morphing and shifting like a body flexing and contorting: These are the sorts of images that Butler leaves behind in your mind, never to be erased.” — The New York Observer ”[A] tangle of cosmic pandemonium . . . For all its sleek neo-Gothicism and terrifying speculation on and remote past and near future of the human mind,  Alice Knott  carries within it the old-style haunting and paranormal shenanigans of a Poe-like captivity tale.” — The   Atlanta Journal-Constitution  “A remarkable accomplishment . . . [Butler’s] constant worrying at what’s genuinely personal, struggling to detach it from the endless play of light across wall and screen, strikes me as an undeniably contemporary project.” —John Domini,  Los Angeles Review of Books “Read this beautifully unsettling novel and prepare to be ravished—and ravaged—as it winds its way inside your psyche, snake-like and persistent. . . . Blake Butler’s latest is a meditation on trauma and art, creation and destruction. . . . It’s a profound, exuberant disturbance, just what you want all art to be.” — Refinery29 “Stunning and impressive . . . With the novel’s humor, arresting voice, and pastiche of conspiracy, art, and paranoia, Butler brings to mind the work of Pynchon and DeLillo as he explores the complexity of artistic achievement and the unreliability of our own minds.” — ZYZZYVA “A masterpiece. . . . I keep trying to come up with my favorite bits in the book . . . the precision of descriptions . . . the grainy-video feel of the atmosphere . . . the way it feels like you might be losing your mind when you read it, the small bits of emotion and feeling that made me feel deeply sad, the hauntology of the whole thing, or maybe the end, where I said out loud ‘don’t do it’ and then he did it. I loved it all.” — World Literature Today “Butler is a master of the American dystopic, language-driven novel, and here returns with his penchant for mining the unsettling national psyche, delving so deeply into its unconscious that the resulti...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Blake Butler
• Editore: Riverhead
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 07.07.2020
• EAN: 9780525535218
• ISBN: 978-0-525-53521-8
• Pagine: 320
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 21 mm
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi