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Dead Love: Absent Presence

Dead Love: Absent Presence

Arabella, Patricia Elizabeth
Pericic, Patricia
Arabella, Patricia

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN13: 9798395547828
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 22 2024
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Ontology of Hunger: A Cartography of the Vanishing Self

I am here, yet I am nowhere.

In the shadowed, cobblestone arteries of London, the line between living and expiring does not merely blur-it dissolves into a haunting metaphysical inquiry. DEAD LOVE: Absent Presence is a visceral descent into the liminality of human consciousness, where the dead-but-alive experience becomes a frantic, never-ending plea for mercy.

A Protagonist Trapped in Her Own Dreaming

Savvy is a ghost in her own skin. Submerged within a comatose labyrinth of her own mind, she navigates a surrealist landscape of memory and hallucination. Her struggle is not merely for survival, but for agency. Driven by an insatiable, primal hunger for true presence, she fights to reclaim her reflection in a world that increasingly renders her invisible.

A Fatal Triangular Desire

As Savvy's essence wavers, a complex and desperate triangular relationship takes hold. In a frantic attempt to seize control over the elusive spirit of the other, the lovers engage in acts of possession that threaten to consume them whole. As individual self-awareness slides irrevocably beneath the surface of lived experience, the boundaries between the lover and the object of desire vanish, leaving only a spiritual vacuum. Estranged being; eclipsed by nihilism.

The Ecstasy of Madness

Pursued by a persistent sense of absence that devours the wake of vanished passions, Savvy's journey culminates in a wild, kinetic escape or chasing an all consuming absent presence, sliding between the realm of imaginary. It is a merry-go-round of rock and roll, a chaotic rhythm fueled by the eccentricity of a mind at the absolute breaking point.

Why read DEAD LOVE: Absent Presence?

  • Philosophical Intensity: An autopsy of the soul for readers who enjoy the existential weight of authors like Jean-Paul Sartre or the surrealist depth of Arthur Rimbaud.
  • Psychological Depth: A gripping exploration of obsessive love, spiritual erosion, and the thin veil between sanity and the void.
  • Visceral Setting: A haunting, atmospheric London that serves as a mirror to the characters' internal decay.

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