La Medusa

By Vanessa Place; Venessa Place
(F2c, Paperback, 9781573661454, 616pp.)

Publication Date: August 2008

Categories: Literary

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“Dazzling and daze-inducing, La Medusa returns us to the ambitious, difficult, and serious work of Joyce, Eliot, Pound, Stein, and Beckett. Like Joyce’s Ulysses, La Medusa is an investigation into the nature of experience. Los Angeles takes the role of Dublin.  The brain and its double cortex generate the stylistic intricacies that the organs and senses do in Joyce.  And above all, it is a female epic, in which the swirling city-universe is explored and shaped by the petrifying eye and intellect of the wily Medusa, her coiling locks extending everywhere.”
--Michael Silverblatt, Bookworm, KCRW Public Radio.