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Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge

Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge

Gladman, Renee

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Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 0984469397
ISBN13: 9780984469390
Publisher: Dorothy a Publishing Project
Published: Nov 1 2013
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.40 Depth: 6.90
Language: English
In Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge, it's the sentence that is alive and that is also a kind of architecture or landscape. --Amina Cain

Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge is the third volume of Renee Gladman's magnificent, melancholy series about the city-state of Ravicka, or about the architectures of its absence. It is tempting to read the Ravickian books as an extended allegory--of architecture itself, perhaps, except that architecture is already half-allegorical, its every element raised to prefigure whatever meanings can make their way to them. If any can. In Ravicka, meanings--indeed most contact of any kind--remain in abeyance, building, in absentia, the constitutive negative spaces of the narrative. There is a plot; it lays out zones of sheer ambience. Experiences, of which there are many, unfold as a redolent lingering in the structures of immateriality, the radical realities of the insubstantial. Gladman is a philosopher of architecture, though not that of buildings. Rather, she thinks (and writes) the drifts, partitions, and immobilities of identity, affect, communication, the very possibility of being human. Profound, compelling--haunting, even--the story of Ravicka is astonishingly ours. (Lyn Hejinian)

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