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Dahlia's Iris: Secret Autobiography and Fiction

Leslie Scalapino

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Detectives are investigating the death of Dahlia Winter's husband and also looking into the mysterious deaths of young boys who are imported for labor in a future-time San Francisco. Citing the plots of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Terminator 2, and Blade Runner as proof that our sense of inner and outer is tied to rebellion and slavery, the novel appears at first to be a detail of these films all at once, like a colonization of them from the inside. But almost immediately the plot assumes its own life. Based on a conception of the Tibetan written form called Secret Autobiography--which is not the chronological events or actions of a life, but an individual's seeing outside any frames--the novel makes a time-space in which sensation, actions, and thought-memory are occurring alongside our present-day space.

Language: English

Pages: 230

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Fiction Collective 2

Release: October 01, 2003

ISBN: 1573661112

ISBN 13: 9781573661119

Dahlia's Iris: Secret Autobiography and Fiction

Leslie Scalapino

4/5 ( ratings)

Detectives are investigating the death of Dahlia Winter's husband and also looking into the mysterious deaths of young boys who are imported for labor in a future-time San Francisco. Citing the plots of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Terminator 2, and Blade Runner as proof that our sense of inner and outer is tied to rebellion and slavery, the novel appears at first to be a detail of these films all at once, like a colonization of them from the inside. But almost immediately the plot assumes its own life. Based on a conception of the Tibetan written form called Secret Autobiography--which is not the chronological events or actions of a life, but an individual's seeing outside any frames--the novel makes a time-space in which sensation, actions, and thought-memory are occurring alongside our present-day space.

Language: English

Pages: 230

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Fiction Collective 2

Release: October 01, 2003

ISBN: 1573661112

ISBN 13: 9781573661119

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