Aviary Slag by Jacques Servin (1996, Hardcover) 
Aviary Slag by Jacques Servin (1996, Hardcover)
Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr
Publication Date: 1996-03-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0932511910
ISBN-13: 9780932511911
Product ID: EPID236990
Description: Short stories, moral tales, and mini-epics by a writer who exults in the inventiveness of language.
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Synopsis
Short stories, moral tales, and mini-epics by a writer who exults in the inventiveness of language.

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Publication Date:1996-03-01

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Length:160 pages
Height:9.0 in
Width:6.0 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:13.6 oz

Industry Reviews
Servin's 75 convoluted, highly experimental short stories reprinted from magazines like Bomb and Exquisite Corpse amount to a phantasmagoric look at the cultural debris of contemporary life. Full of word games and startling non sequiturs, the pieces are narrative fragments, hallucinatory visions or short parables (most are less than two pages) concerned with a characteristic theme of postmodern culture, such as commerce and art, the environment and the city, sexuality and the apocalypse. Among the more memorable stories are "The Conversion of New York Into Birds' Nests," a bureaucratic account of a pastoral fantasy ("we set to work with one hundred thousand pick-axes, three missives in fifteen million cc's"); "Wife. Then Event," in which the narrator's wife turns into a boat, sinks to a silty ocean floor and is rescued; and "Glue In the Melting Pot," a surreal account of a topsy-turvy city overrun by animals and humans with freakish powers. Servin's disjointed fiction, accompanied here by an index (E: Ecologists, Edible guns, Effete, Etruscans, Euphoria, Exegesis, Explosives) and a preface inviting us to read in a nonlinear sequence, aptly evokes the fragmentation of the contemporary world; yet his illogical prose is often more maddening than illuminating, leaving his underlying intentions largely opaque. (Mar.)
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