Phunkie read / write / remix :
Wridding is an
exploration in the novel as a liquid genre. Told in an unorthodox aesthetic
key, the oneiric quest-for-wholeness narrative reveals the characters’
transition from dark lands toward the territories of the reborn light, from erratic
possibilities toward what they might become and / or who they are. Within a phantasmagoric journey through the whirlpools of
the dreamscape and a fractured empire of chronos, the identities of the
characters fluctuate as always already oscillating loops of
disintegration and wholeness. Sparse characterization, minimalist
setting, scant plot, and a prominent role of subtonic layers are constitutive
of the portrayal of strangers’ encounters with their unlikely reflections and
brooding echoes that evoke contemporary babylonian cultural cacophony. Looking
for interpretations of death, the characters find out how it feels to be alive.
Their disappearance and re-emergence are in a mutually conditioning
relationship with the alternating cycles of kinetics/inertia and
scarcity/abundance of communication. The dynamic is tracked through an
eclectic, yet focused, stylistic versatility ranging from meandering
metafictional excursions, via angular lyric prose passages, to quirky poetry,
peculiar dialogues, and syncopated humor. The tone is pivotal to the
characters’ active participation in their own recreation, reanimation, and
reintegration into the unfolding storyline. Partly, it has a role of a
destabilizer of the narrative line, characterization, point of view, and
setting. Deploying such a literary tactic enables the story’s organic
evolvement and reconstitution throughout the remix.
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