The collective unconscious of the narrator is on full display and, despite readers not knowing why, Biblical, vampiric, and dystopian images flash by like ads along an expressway. They ultimately work in tandem, creating a sense of foreboding, entrapment, and Gothic psychological horror. With the People from the Bridge. Review by Tiffany Austin. Valley Voices Review, Issue June , Mississippi, USA. We are truly “with the people” as we experience a man attempting to open the coffin,bring to life, and leave with a lover. Lyacos’ work is at once a broad me-andering of. Review of book: WITH THE PEOPLE FROM THE BRIDGE In truth, I suspect it’s almost better not to know too much about this backstory. By withholding information, Lyacos’ and Sullivan’s text, sparse and menacing, challenges the reader to create their own story, and the book is all the better for it.
Dimitris Lyacos's long, tripartite poem, Poena Damni, is one of the most important and challenging literary works to come from Greece in the past generation. "With the People from the Bridge" is not the poem of a Christian apologist, but of an agnostic thoroughly penetrated by Christian. Perhaps it is no wonder, then, that Dimitris Lyacos, a contemporary Greek poet, offers the reader a series of hell-like fragments in With the people from the bridge. The second installment in Lyacos's Poena Damni trilogy, the poem mimics Woolf's thesis of broken emotions, although it also verges towards the postmodern. With the People from the Bridge by Dimitris Lyacos translated by Shorsha Sullivan Shoestring Press, In what one might call the conventionally apocalyptic postmodern text, a vision of broken narrative, endless repetition, and meaning not signified but depleted by speech and gesture would appear to be the goal. There are moments that, taken.
With the People from the Bridge. Review by Tiffany Austin. Valley Voices Review, Issue June , Mississippi, USA. We are truly “with the people” as we experience a man attempting to open the coffin,bring to life, and leave with a lover. Lyacos’ work is at once a broad me-andering of. The second book of the trilogy, With the People from the Bridge, deals with a desolate landscape involving an abandoned train station very similar to that in Z EXIT. In this book, however, there is company of sorts: a group of three individuals, including the narrator, and two others, “LG” and “NCTV,” who stumble upon, and become involved in, an eerily macabre performance by a Greek chorus and other various performers on a “stage” set in front of a dilapidated automobile. Review of book: WITH THE PEOPLE FROM THE BRIDGE In truth, I suspect it’s almost better not to know too much about this backstory. By withholding information, Lyacos’ and Sullivan’s text, sparse and menacing, challenges the reader to create their own story, and the book is all the better for it.
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