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| Original Title: | Dhalgren ASIN B00HE2JK7G |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Nebula Award Nominee for Novel (1975), Locus Award Nominee for Best Novel (1976) |
Samuel R. Delany
Kindle Edition | Pages: 836 pages Rating: 3.77 | 8258 Users | 960 Reviews
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A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects are disturbing: a city block burns down and is intact a week later; clouds cover the sky for weeks, then part to reveal two moons; a week passes for one person when only a day passes for another. The catastrophe is confined to Bellona, and most of the inhabitants have fled. But others are drawn to the devastated city, among them the Kid, a white/American Indian man who can't remember his own name. The Kid is emblematic of those who live in the new Bellona, who are the young, the poor, the mad, the violent, the outcast--the marginalized.
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| Title | : | Dhalgren |
| Author | : | Samuel R. Delany |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 836 pages |
| Published | : | January 7th 2014 by Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy (first published January 1975) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy |
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Whatever request for complicity, in whatever labyrinth of despair, it made of the listener, whatever demand for relief from situations which were by definition unrelievable, these requests, these demands could only be made of the very new to such labyrinths, such situations. And time, even as he munched flat bread, was erasing that status.Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us that. When the canon comes crumbling down, whoThe Tunnel Gravitys Rainbow/Mason & Dixon The Recognitions/JR The Public BurningTake Five Women and Men/Lookout Cartridge Miss Macintosh My DarlingTake it or leave it Dhalgren If the above list means anything to you, then so should the inclusion of this deeply impressive, deeply ambitious, deeply experimental text. It is big, transgressive, meta-fictional, and intelligent. It also loops round on itself like the Wake (and loops again internally or, at least, reaches back and forward with
*Available from KOBOBOOKSI think this is a brilliant novel and I hated every moment I spent with it. I struggled to get through this. Part of that was due to my own neuroses: I now know that I find vivid descriptions of dirty, smelly people who havent bathed for days having sex very very offputting. Part of that was due to the fact that, as many reviewers have already noted, nothing really happens in the novel. Incidents occur but by and large the plot rambles all over the place. Delany
I am limited, finite and fixed. I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.What an odd, warped achievement. Delany provides us a reimagined Ellisonian treatise on Invisibility and Impermanence. He paints a city of possibility and then wipes his creation into a blotchy blur. This is Bellona. Delany also eviscerates the idea of the homo faber. While the depicted poet lacks a shoe, it is hands which reign in Dhalgren. They are
to wound the autumnal city ... I have come toDhalgren is theUnreal City Under the brown fog of a winter noonTS ElliotThis is a difficult book to review, difficult to put one's thought's and feelings into words, the written word is perhaps insufficient to the task (a meme of this novel, I think). Following are some random thoughts.Overall I found it engaging, for reasons I cannot express; I was compelled to get back to reading, as compelled, perhaps as The Kid was to writing. I read Dhalgren from
Dhalgren - Samuel R. Delanys maddening combination of, to name just three, Cormac McCarthys The Road, South American magical realism and an American poetic rendition of Irvine Welshs Trainspotting. One of the strangest, most bizarre, weirdest novels ever to rise to cult classic status - a kind of x-rated fairy tale covered in soot. Yet there something epic, even mythic running through its nine hundred pages that makes this work truly compelling. Delany penned five published novels prior to his
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