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The Enchantments series by Tom La Farge (1-3)
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 927 KB
Overview: Tom La Farge lives and writes in Flatbush, Brooklyn. He is the author of The Crimson Bears and Terror of Earth (both Sun & Moon Press), and Zuntig (Green Integer). In 2009 Wendy Walker and he founded The Writhing Society, a constrained-writing salon that meets twice a month in Brooklyn. He has published a number of constrained pieces and also the first three pamphlets of a manual, 13 Writhing Machines (Proteotypes.org) for this sort of writing. Learn more at his website: tomlafarge.com.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Broken House (The Enchantments #1)
..".Critics have called Pynchon's Lot 49 a parody of postmodernism rather than a seminal text. But The Broken House [Book One of The Enchantments] is more than a parody of fantasy (or steampunk or the postmodern).... For the events in this novel, like the best parodies, are wholly realistic, despite their supernatural trappings. And in these we may not see the loss of innocence, the genesis of a new civilization, or even a kind of tragedy of greatness misspent. La Farge instead constructs a new kind of fable with a lesson that at first seems as enigmatic as a mirage in the desert. Consider the natural phenomena that go into a mirage, though, and the moral of the story might be that much clearer." American Book Review
Maznoona (The Enchantments #2)
Maznoona came out from Spuyten Duyvil in 2016. The title varies the Arabic word meaning “madwoman.” Her narrative wrenches the protagonist, Yalayl, out of one stable, restrictive situation after another. She grows up in a fortified river village at desert’s edge. Free people of color, her community must pay annual tribute to a predatory nomad tribe, and she herself, as she enters puberty, learns what obligations a woman must obey within such a community. Chance teaches her the story of Layla and Majnoon, a pre-Islamic Bedouin tale of mad love, and Yalayl makes it a means of escape from the fate that awaits her in her village. She loves, first, a feral boy raised by a pack of wild desert dogs.
When dogs and boy head out into the desert after migrating game, Yalayl, pregnant and unmarried, passes through a crisis and is sent to bear her child and be cured of her madness in the city, where no one will know; but she is seen and recognized. She must travel farther, into the mountains, to the hamlet where her son is born, and where she loves a man who cannot use language but who can communicate with birds. She again is pregnant. In that hamlet, up against the same social strictures as at home, Yalayl makes her mark as a master weaver and as a drummer. She is accepted into a sisterhood of drumming women. Performing at a saint’s feast, her drumming and singing free the villagers’ spirits from the binding forms of mere ritual and send them into communal ecstasy. Having shown her power, she attracts resentment, and when friends work to marry her to her lover, whose father is paramount chief of a tribal confederation, she is exiled back to the city.
There, where Yalayl sells her weavings and raises her children, the chief arranges for her to be arrested and tortured by the police. From there her story enters a dark spiral, as she goes to work for the police as a typist and an informer. She joins with other women in a sisterhood of artistically gifted prostitutes. At this stage in her life she thinks she’s possessed by znoon, the malevolent demons of that culture. She wonders which is the madness: the love that drew her to animal-linked men or the shameful state of mind set up by social norms. One way or the other, she wishes to free herself and travels into the desert, to an oasis where healers specialize in exorcisms; perhaps also, to search for her first lover, the boy who runs with the dogs. In the end she finds a different, more drastic form of escape.
Humans by Lamplight (The Enchantments #3)
When Madame Lula learns she must die, she amuses herself by writing her will. In it she bequeaths not just her money and real estate but her tenants. These, lodged in her body, are znoon: a kind of demon and her slaves. Lula's little joke: leave her znoon to her detested family. The normal work of znoon is to make trouble. After her death they leave her mansion in the capital to track down the heirs. But these znoon, highly specialized mischief-makers, like city comfort and balk at having to hunt down Lula's provincial relatives.They scheme, and the plan they devise winds up the will and provokes an uprising against the government. The human heirs, freed from enchantment, seem feeble but reveal skills no one guessed they owned. They turn the history of this troubled world in an unexpected direction.
In this third novel of his fabulist series The Enchantments,
Tom La Farge considers how humans might create political change and escape the image-enthralled souls they mistake for exclusive identities. Upon the alternative North African setting of The Broken House and Maznoona -- a world enchanted by the demons of false consciousness -- he overlays an idea of animal souls from the beliefs of indigenous Americans: we contain several souls, who make our lives their habitat and lend us their habits, moods, and behaviors. They lead us into strange explorations, potentially perilous, potentially rewarding, unless they are restrained by imposed, often artificial oversouls.
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Requirements: .ePUB reader, 927 KB
Overview: Tom La Farge lives and writes in Flatbush, Brooklyn. He is the author of The Crimson Bears and Terror of Earth (both Sun & Moon Press), and Zuntig (Green Integer). In 2009 Wendy Walker and he founded The Writhing Society, a constrained-writing salon that meets twice a month in Brooklyn. He has published a number of constrained pieces and also the first three pamphlets of a manual, 13 Writhing Machines (Proteotypes.org) for this sort of writing. Learn more at his website: tomlafarge.com.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Broken House (The Enchantments #1)
..".Critics have called Pynchon's Lot 49 a parody of postmodernism rather than a seminal text. But The Broken House [Book One of The Enchantments] is more than a parody of fantasy (or steampunk or the postmodern).... For the events in this novel, like the best parodies, are wholly realistic, despite their supernatural trappings. And in these we may not see the loss of innocence, the genesis of a new civilization, or even a kind of tragedy of greatness misspent. La Farge instead constructs a new kind of fable with a lesson that at first seems as enigmatic as a mirage in the desert. Consider the natural phenomena that go into a mirage, though, and the moral of the story might be that much clearer." American Book Review
Maznoona (The Enchantments #2)
Maznoona came out from Spuyten Duyvil in 2016. The title varies the Arabic word meaning “madwoman.” Her narrative wrenches the protagonist, Yalayl, out of one stable, restrictive situation after another. She grows up in a fortified river village at desert’s edge. Free people of color, her community must pay annual tribute to a predatory nomad tribe, and she herself, as she enters puberty, learns what obligations a woman must obey within such a community. Chance teaches her the story of Layla and Majnoon, a pre-Islamic Bedouin tale of mad love, and Yalayl makes it a means of escape from the fate that awaits her in her village. She loves, first, a feral boy raised by a pack of wild desert dogs.
When dogs and boy head out into the desert after migrating game, Yalayl, pregnant and unmarried, passes through a crisis and is sent to bear her child and be cured of her madness in the city, where no one will know; but she is seen and recognized. She must travel farther, into the mountains, to the hamlet where her son is born, and where she loves a man who cannot use language but who can communicate with birds. She again is pregnant. In that hamlet, up against the same social strictures as at home, Yalayl makes her mark as a master weaver and as a drummer. She is accepted into a sisterhood of drumming women. Performing at a saint’s feast, her drumming and singing free the villagers’ spirits from the binding forms of mere ritual and send them into communal ecstasy. Having shown her power, she attracts resentment, and when friends work to marry her to her lover, whose father is paramount chief of a tribal confederation, she is exiled back to the city.
There, where Yalayl sells her weavings and raises her children, the chief arranges for her to be arrested and tortured by the police. From there her story enters a dark spiral, as she goes to work for the police as a typist and an informer. She joins with other women in a sisterhood of artistically gifted prostitutes. At this stage in her life she thinks she’s possessed by znoon, the malevolent demons of that culture. She wonders which is the madness: the love that drew her to animal-linked men or the shameful state of mind set up by social norms. One way or the other, she wishes to free herself and travels into the desert, to an oasis where healers specialize in exorcisms; perhaps also, to search for her first lover, the boy who runs with the dogs. In the end she finds a different, more drastic form of escape.
Humans by Lamplight (The Enchantments #3)
When Madame Lula learns she must die, she amuses herself by writing her will. In it she bequeaths not just her money and real estate but her tenants. These, lodged in her body, are znoon: a kind of demon and her slaves. Lula's little joke: leave her znoon to her detested family. The normal work of znoon is to make trouble. After her death they leave her mansion in the capital to track down the heirs. But these znoon, highly specialized mischief-makers, like city comfort and balk at having to hunt down Lula's provincial relatives.They scheme, and the plan they devise winds up the will and provokes an uprising against the government. The human heirs, freed from enchantment, seem feeble but reveal skills no one guessed they owned. They turn the history of this troubled world in an unexpected direction.
In this third novel of his fabulist series The Enchantments,
Tom La Farge considers how humans might create political change and escape the image-enthralled souls they mistake for exclusive identities. Upon the alternative North African setting of The Broken House and Maznoona -- a world enchanted by the demons of false consciousness -- he overlays an idea of animal souls from the beliefs of indigenous Americans: we contain several souls, who make our lives their habitat and lend us their habits, moods, and behaviors. They lead us into strange explorations, potentially perilous, potentially rewarding, unless they are restrained by imposed, often artificial oversouls.
Download Instructions:
(Filehost down) http://www.centfile.com/uqywom065l3j
https://www.mediafire.com/file/bhbqbh8vzwsv658/3+books+by+Tom+LaFarge.rar/file
https://ulozto.net/file/4c0ZZDJpdtwe/3- ... STFmx4AN==
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