Kharlamov's Ankle: A Utopian Fantasy - Majzels, Robert
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In this anarchic, post-genre poem-as-novel, imagined by one of Canada's leading experimental writers, the dystopian politics of our everyday inhale both a contra tenor opera singer who lured to China by the Kanadian embassy and the innocent cultural attaché who invited him. kHarLaMoV's aNkLe: a utopian fantasy leaks us bits of poetry and counsel, while in its bowels the rumble of utopia rises. It is the unrelenting spasmodic energy of a group of revolutionary junkies of Montreal known as kHarLaMoV's aNkLe, who work to free not just themselves, but us all. The characters of kHarLaMoV's aNkLe…mehr

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In this anarchic, post-genre poem-as-novel, imagined by one of Canada's leading experimental writers, the dystopian politics of our everyday inhale both a contra tenor opera singer who lured to China by the Kanadian embassy and the innocent cultural attaché who invited him. kHarLaMoV's aNkLe: a utopian fantasy leaks us bits of poetry and counsel, while in its bowels the rumble of utopia rises. It is the unrelenting spasmodic energy of a group of revolutionary junkies of Montreal known as kHarLaMoV's aNkLe, who work to free not just themselves, but us all. The characters of kHarLaMoV's aNkLe are never singular. They are communities of agitated endeavor, alive (we won't call it "living") in a dystopia so all-encompassing that even the conditions and conventions of punctuation and capitalization are shattered. This fascinating novel invokes Kathy Acker, and Roberto Bolaño, too; the kinetics of David Foster Wallace; and the sentence-long novels of José Saramago. But the ANkle goes further, as it doesn't just use but survives grammatical convention, wresting words back from the death doctors of order, and making them, and us, believe in the world again.
Autorenporträt
Robert Majzels was born in Montréal and holds a Canadian passport, but he'll be damned if he'll stand up for anybody's national anthem. kHarLamOv's aNkLe is his fifth novel. He has also published a play, a book of poetry (with Claire Huot), a number of translations, including five novels by the Acadian writer France Daigle (one of which was awarded a Governor General's Award), and, with Erín Moure, a number of books of poetry by Nicole Brossard. For seven lean years, he was an associate professor of English and creative writing at the University of Calgary, until he walked away in 2015. He now lives somewhere on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, where he writes from time to time, and tries to think otherwise.