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 The Visible World - Mark Slouka
Newest Review: ... the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. This is told in halves, first as a disjointed account captioned 'A Memoir', as the ... more  ... narrator tries to work out his parents' past piece-meal, from shattered fragments of memory, from relations of other people, from folk tales, from impressions of Czech immigrant lives in the US. Eventually, a coherent picture is presented, entitled 'A Novel'.
These titles themselves are a clue to the underlying subject of "The Visible World" which is the relationship between truth and fiction, memory and reality; of how we construct the world from imperfect perceptions, how a human being is essentially a st...more |
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The Visible World - Mark Slouka: Elusive Past That Makes Us (695 words)
by - written on 27/03/08 (Very useful, 67 readings)
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On the basic level, "The Visible World" is a novel about how the past constructs us and how impossible it is to grasp with any degree of accuracy. It's about personal past, societal/historical past and the cruel mingling of the two that happens in the pivotal moments of history and which can leave a visible, gaping wound in the lives of nations and in the lives of individuals. It's about grief, nostalgia and the inability (or unwillingness) to let go. But it's also about the specifically American ambivalence towards the past: a desire to lose it, to cut it off cleanly and a desperate yearning to trace and understand it. The narrator of "The ... Read the complete review
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