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Debra Di Blasi - The Jiri Chronicles Other Fictions - 9781573661362 - V9781573661362
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The Jiri Chronicles Other Fictions

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Description for The Jiri Chronicles Other Fictions Paperback. A collection of stories, which challenges the stylistic and thematic boundaries of traditional literature, questioning what it means to be human - and awake - in the post-millenium. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 366.
These audacious stories shine with artistic nuance and fearless emotional intensity. Tragic, lyrical, hilarious, and politically controversial, they exist in a world where fact is as strange as fiction, and fiction is often disguised as fact. ""The Jiri Chronicles & Other Fictions"" is divided into three sections, each a unique literary experiment. In ""Snapshots: A Genealogy in Flight,"" Debra Di Blasi draws inspiration from real family photographs to create a haunting portrait of successive generations of a fictionalized Midwest family. ""Hyperfictions"" features writing that is interactive and nonlinear, dissolving borders between poetry and prose, visual art and music. At the work's comic center is an invention that transgresses the boundaries of fiction and fraud. Just who is Jiri Cech? A businessman, vampire, and artist from the former Czechoslovakia? A website? A hoax? An American con artist whose racism and sexism, although loathsome, only heighten his allure? Or something greater or smaller than the sum of these parts? This astonishing collection challenges the stylistic and thematic boundaries of traditional literature, questioning what it means to be human - and awake - in the post-millenium.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Normal, United States
ISBN
9781573661362
SKU
V9781573661362
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99-15

About Debra Di Blasi
Debra Di Blasi is the recipient of many writing awards, including the James C. McCormick Fellowship in Fiction from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, the Thorpe Menn Book Award, and the Eyster Prize in Fiction. She is the author of Drought & Say What You Like, Prayers of an Accidental Nature, and Ugly Town. An accomplished screenwriter, she is also the president of Jaded Ibis Productions, Inc., a transmedia corporation.[trademark]

Reviews for The Jiri Chronicles Other Fictions
The Jiri Chronicles & Other Fictions is chaotic, brilliant and, like Jiri Cech himself, possibly quite mad. With frenetic energy, Di Blasi mixes personal narrative with ad copy, traditional fiction with newspaper clippings, email messages, reportage, collage, and scholarship. The resulting concoction is consistently surprising, challenging, invigorating, and, most surprisingly of all, often deeply moving. Di Blasi has a mind unlike anyone else writing fiction today, and this is her finest work yet. - editor of Pleiades. A Journal of New Writing ""In clear, resonant prose, laced with bittersweet humor, Di Blasi imparts her understanding of love's multiple ironies."" - New York Times Book Review ""Both Di Blasi's style and her objective distance and comprehension of her chosen subject mark her as a very psychologically driven, very talented writer."" - Publishers Weekly

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