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Imaginary Women

Imaginary Women

Westlake, Michael
Rodowick, D. N.

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 9811109699
ISBN13: 9789811109690
Publisher: Verbivoraciouspress
Published: Sep 19 2016
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

To enter the fictional world of Imaginary Women is to revisit a lively cultural era where one read Jacques Lacan and Roland Barthes in the morning, sampled the cinema in the afternoon, and danced to The Clash at night. In an unnamed city in the novel the thirteen fictional women deployed in its coordinate system of interlocking stories both diverge and reconnect in an intricate web of play and puzzles. Composed in short sections, Westlake freely reimagines the narrative language of popular genres such as film noir, science fiction, and the political thriller, and reinvents the roles assumed by imaginary women. Popular cinema and love of film play important parts in the book's structure and network of cultural references, as do some of the most vibrant critical movements of the 1980s, especially psychoanalysis and feminist theory. Westlake's always humorous and insightful appropriation and reworking of popular conventions and language are often reminiscent of Thomas Pynchon, Italo Calvino, and Jorge Luis Borges.

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