Lapvona
Lapvona navigates a variety of ideas-blindness and sight, the transposition of an internal ugliness to an external physicality, religion and power, the shifting lines between living and survival, isolation and madness-and each character is bound to multiple themes with staggering complexity. The cha...
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| Published in | World Literature Today Vol. 96; no. 6; pp. 59 - 60 |
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| Format | Book Review |
| Language | English |
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Norman
University of Oklahoma
01.11.2022
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| Summary: | Lapvona navigates a variety of ideas-blindness and sight, the transposition of an internal ugliness to an external physicality, religion and power, the shifting lines between living and survival, isolation and madness-and each character is bound to multiple themes with staggering complexity. The characters share intricate relationships with the act of eating-Villiam is depicted as an empty pit into which food disappears, a close allegory of his hunger of power, never to be satiated. Driven to cannibalism by the drought, she revives from near-death by consuming the flesh of a dead man, an event that fundamentally skews her relationship with the natural world. |
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| ISSN: | 0196-3570 1945-8134 |
| DOI: | 10.1353/wlt.2022.0268 |