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A review by corpuslibris
EVER by Blake Butler
4.0
My favorite line: [One book opened me instead.:]
This book is hard to explain. As the brackets so prevalent in the text suggest, there many levels upon which to interpret it. Is the house literal, the character agoraphobic, and the lack of a world outside of it suggests something post-apocalyptic? Or is the house a metaphor for any number of other things: the house as body, with many layers and complexities inside it? The house as boundary between reality and the metaphysical, suggesting an apocalypse of the psyche? Or the house as a blueprint of memory and personal history to be explored? It is deeply in touch with the visceral, but also the sensual and the spacial. An interesting and perplexing read.
This book is hard to explain. As the brackets so prevalent in the text suggest, there many levels upon which to interpret it. Is the house literal, the character agoraphobic, and the lack of a world outside of it suggests something post-apocalyptic? Or is the house a metaphor for any number of other things: the house as body, with many layers and complexities inside it? The house as boundary between reality and the metaphysical, suggesting an apocalypse of the psyche? Or the house as a blueprint of memory and personal history to be explored? It is deeply in touch with the visceral, but also the sensual and the spacial. An interesting and perplexing read.