The Lost Daughter Collective
母娘関係の喪失と共同体の裂け目をめぐる実験的中編。断片的な視点と不確かな語りで、喪失と再生の境界を探る。
作品情報
断片的な語りが、喪失の輪郭を少しずつ浮かび上がらせる。
母娘関係の喪失と共同体の裂け目を、断片的な語りで追う実験的な中編。語りの不確かさが、そのまま喪失感の輪郭になっている。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Dzanc Books
- 発売日
- 2017-03-07
- ページ数
- 169ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.97 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781941088739
- ISBN-10
- 1941088732
- 価格
- 3232 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Literary
Using bedtime stories as cautionary tales, a Wrist Scholar relays the story of a fabled group of fathers coping with dead and missing daughters. When the girl sacrifices everything to send a final message to her father through her art and one lost girl is revealed to be not dead or missing but a daughter who has transitioned into a son, fathers are faced with the reality that their childrens ?play is anything but. Caught in a strange loop that?like Eschers ?Drawing Hands?confuses the line between reality and artifice, folklore and scholarship, far past and near future, The Lost Daughter Collective illustrates how the stories we receive are shaped by those who do the telling. A story about the complex relationship between fathers and daughters as well as the ethics of storytelling, The Lost Daughter Collective is a gothic fairy tale fusing the fabulism at work in Donald Barthleme and Ben Marcus with the brevity and language play of Rikki Ducornet and Jenny Offill to raise questions about agency and authorship in our narratives.
Lindsey Drager is the author of The Sorrow Proper (Dzanc, 2015), winner of the 2016 Binghamton University / John Gardner Fiction Award. Originally from Michigan, she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the College of Charleston, where she teaches in the MFA program in fiction.
レビュー
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Exploring the liminal
This work is perhaps an ode to the liminal - Drager is most at home capturing and inferring meaning from states of change. Sharp prose defines a hazy, almost Murakami-esque world; her vignettes are most akin to the fleeting dream state - somehow both vividly defined and fitful - in-between snooze button and wakefulness. There's a gift here to the careful reader; the author has the gift of weaving unadorned verbiage into achingly poignant turns of phrase. Indeed, this work is literature as sociology as art - acting as the impartial observer, Drager somehow manages to imbue even the smallest of moments with great import; this is a master observer, transmuting even minute gestures in conversation to moments of punctuation in grand soliloquy. Drager tips her hand - perhaps unintentionally - with the Alice in Wonderland themes. Alice was not only a lost daughter; her journey down the rabbit hole led her to a study of wonderment, of the remarkable, of that which is perhaps not what it appears to be. Drager has that same slightly wide-eyed perspective of the world, betraying her wonderment with trenchant analysis of the seemingly mundane. Truly an enjoyable read, especially the deceptively clear prose; gossamer layers covering a scalpel.
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Sad but lovely book
Sad but lovely book. You don't need to have suffered a loss to relate. This book speaks to everyone. Touching.
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Interesting, fairy tale-like story, about the loss of daughters, and the effect on those left behind
Interesting book, written in a fairy tale-like prose, which tells the stories of fathers who have lost their daughters, and how they deal with their grief. Beautifully written - an engaging story that makes you think.
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Plenty of food fir thought.
Not as forthright as her first offering, this second novel offers plenty of food for thought which is Drager's best aspect. Recommended.
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Great!
A book you will not want to put down....Great!
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