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Practice and Patience in the Startled Room
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ISBN10: 1304175782
ISBN13: 9781304175786
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: Jul 20 2024
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781304175786
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: Jul 20 2024
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Surrealistic and grotesque, these characters are practicing to hear God, patient to meet God, startled by the solidity of material things - whatever exists is an obstruction. Born to doomed and violently unhappy parents of working-class origin who rose in class by chance during their lifetimes, Arkady finds himself tsar at seventeen. He does not want to rule; he is aimless like his mother and seeks intoxication and loving-and-hateful violence and absurdist ritual to negate his guilt at shirking responsibility and to destroy any possibility of meaning or even of intelligibility - sensations should not grow to words in a living death. Then he begins to believe he is the Russian Christ.
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