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adrianasturalvarez's review
5.0
This is an important novel. A novel processing and dispensing a reaction: harnessing a movement (Dadaism) and maintaining its relevance nearly 90 years after it was written. We are so lucky to have this reissue. This is such an important time to receive it.
This is a novel with no conventional plotting but using stylistic innovation and a tender eye for poignant details about people and the natural world Coates manages to recover the spirit of a time.
There is a political heart within the Dadaist movement. It is a desire to counter capitalism's failings by reclaiming language any way it can, trimming it of all connotative abuses accumulated over time. To that end, Coates innovates with a rhythm of colons and parentheticals that capture, remarkably, a spirit of thoughtfulness and interruption familiar to anyone who has walked a city street, more, for anyone who has left the city to the country and noticed the arrant change in mind. As a counter it allows the reader to know Henderson, the stand in for Coates, the stand in for the country living protagonist.
I am so impressed by this work and grateful it has been reprinted. If there are any others like it please clue me in.
This is a novel with no conventional plotting but using stylistic innovation and a tender eye for poignant details about people and the natural world Coates manages to recover the spirit of a time.
There is a political heart within the Dadaist movement. It is a desire to counter capitalism's failings by reclaiming language any way it can, trimming it of all connotative abuses accumulated over time. To that end, Coates innovates with a rhythm of colons and parentheticals that capture, remarkably, a spirit of thoughtfulness and interruption familiar to anyone who has walked a city street, more, for anyone who has left the city to the country and noticed the arrant change in mind. As a counter it allows the reader to know Henderson, the stand in for Coates, the stand in for the country living protagonist.
I am so impressed by this work and grateful it has been reprinted. If there are any others like it please clue me in.
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