![]() With his junky blend of horror, sci-fi and Beckett, Evenson solves many writerly problems: how to systematically destabilize exposition how to upend the "it-was-all-a-dream" ending how to use the imagination to get out of the mind and into the body. ![]() Bloody, ruthless, symbolist, bodily physical and atmospherically hollow. The territory is familiar - identifiably his. Instead of an ambiguous shrug at the end of a suspenseful story, there is a glimmering, jeering, three-dimensional absence ("And then he couldn't manage to think even that." - "The Oxygen Protocol").Įvenson, acclaimed author of the virtuosic Mormon murder thriller The Open Curtain, and the creepy post-apocalyptic novel Immobility, has a well mapped-out moral universe. These stories don't end, but rather leap off cliffs and out of sight ("It was as if none of them really knew what was happening to them: none of them understood it, yet none of them were able to stop. Evenson's stories, as puzzling as they are, never get to The Answer - or, if they do, it's not likely there is a Question. Is the man a maniacal killer, or trapped in an experiment? What happens in the caves? Will the dead boy be avenged? Can Halle survive until the end of the oxygen shortage?įoolish me. ![]() How?Īs if wooing Sisyphus, I push hungrily through the 25 stories in Brian Evenson's new collection, Windeye, trying each time to get to The Answer. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Windeye Subtitle Stories Author Brian Evenson ![]()
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