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Present Past
Schieber’s Present Past , like her previous Soundless Roar , is a multi-genre collection. Made up of drawings, poems, and stories, this manuscript confronts the reader with radically different responses to and representations of her rich life. These materials—most obviously the stories—cover decades, starting with her childhood in 1930s Novi Sad and ending in 1980s Chicago. In terms of pure space, Schieber’s stories dominate the collection. At the same time, their content—along with Schieber’s approach to prose narrative—is productively complicated by appearing interspersed between the other forms. This is, in short, a fascinating collection, one containing many virtues.
216 pages, Hardcover
Published September 15, 2016
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December 23, 2016
Disclosure: I received a digital copy for review from NetGalley
This was a complete surprise, I had no idea who the author/artist was when I asked to review this and also I had no idea that she was a Yugoslavian survivor of WWII (because this info wasn't included in the NetGalley summary... just saying).
The author recounts memories of her life after WWII in sparing but beautiful prose split with poetry and these beautiful sketches that are dominated by faces, hands and feet. I can only suppose that the faces are representative of emotions (the brain being the seat of emotion), hands symbolic of feeling and touch and feet representative of the journeys, the paths the author has traveled.
The author who lost most of her family by the age of fifteen, paints herself as a very precocious, intelligent, creative and talented young women who made hard decisions, lived in poverty at times but ultimately lived the life she wanted and carved out for herself.
A very quick, entrancing read, but also unfinished as the author ends the book in the 1980s. I would dearly love to read the rest of the authors story, and see more of her haunting sketches.
This was a complete surprise, I had no idea who the author/artist was when I asked to review this and also I had no idea that she was a Yugoslavian survivor of WWII (because this info wasn't included in the NetGalley summary... just saying).
The author recounts memories of her life after WWII in sparing but beautiful prose split with poetry and these beautiful sketches that are dominated by faces, hands and feet. I can only suppose that the faces are representative of emotions (the brain being the seat of emotion), hands symbolic of feeling and touch and feet representative of the journeys, the paths the author has traveled.
The author who lost most of her family by the age of fifteen, paints herself as a very precocious, intelligent, creative and talented young women who made hard decisions, lived in poverty at times but ultimately lived the life she wanted and carved out for herself.
A very quick, entrancing read, but also unfinished as the author ends the book in the 1980s. I would dearly love to read the rest of the authors story, and see more of her haunting sketches.
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