
Title | : | Divine Days |
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Rating | : | |
ISBN | : | 9780929968247 |
Language | : | English |
Format Type | : | Hardcover |
Number of Pages | : | 1138 |
Divine Days Reviews
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At one point, late in our conversation, Sugar-Groove said: "Look Joubert, there is a river of time, more ancient than Eden, where every form of waste and wonder has been discarded, past all parchments of recorded time. You enter, or I should say you’re tossed adrift or hurled into those turbulent waters to make a way out of no way even out of nothingness. Tossed off. Told to swim. Sail even. Get lost. Or Die. You have to teach yourself to swim through all this ahistorical garbage, to remake yo [...]
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(There's a pretty big caveat that makes up the end of this review, if you're just looking at the star rating) But my problem was more complex; my is hounded by the voices of oral tradition, literary tradition. From the opening pages, Divine Days is embroiled with voices. To begin, the voices are only by reference; the narrator, an aspiring playwright, makes repeated claims to being afflicted by (composed of) voices (the claims are made in reference to both his youthful acting and his more recent [...]
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So far so like fucking great. Kicking things off with Joyce, John, Proteus, and Fyodor, spotted with comparisons to Faulkner's Ywerawraomrtea*, kind words from Ralph Ellison and Saul Bellow and, for the few people that read my few reviews - I am a major proponent of the concept entailing gigantic books entail gigantic ideas - However, I am not obliged in the slightest in agreeing unquestioningly, or even accepting, such ideas. Time is money. So this Divine Days put me off at first (I have barely [...]
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“Simply put, Leon Forrest's massive masterpiece Divine Days is the War and Peace of the African-American novel.” -- Henry Louis Gates
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Purchased. Perhaps an early autumn read. "The War & Peace of the African-American novel"? Yes please thank you
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some smart guy called this book 'the war and peace of the african american novel' but it's really more of a big modernist thing like your joyce or musil or whoever. the style is much less prose poetic and biblical overall than his first novel, probably because this book is so long, but there are sections where that style breaks through again. there's not really a single overarching plot, but more a series of digressive stories that interact and move in and around each other, with the protagonist [...]
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Wow, me entire manifesto and critical review has been erased. Without warning. The single serious review on Divine Days available. The digital burying is no longer rumor; it is here. We are fucked. And how fitting: Divine Days.
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This is a long book