Houses of Ravicka (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780997366662)

"More Kafka than Kafka, Renee Gladman's achievement ranks alongside many of Borges' in its creation of a fantastical landscape with deep psychological impact." --Jeff VanderMeer

Since 2010 writer and artist Renee Gladman has placed fantastic and philosophical stories in the invented city-state of Ravicka, a Ruritanian everyplace with its own gestural language, poetic architecture, and inexplicable physics. As Ravicka has grown, so has Gladman's project, spilling out from her fiction--Event Factory, The Ravickians, and Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge--into her nonfiction (Calamities) and even visual art (Prose Architectures). The result is a project unlike any other in American letters today, a fictional world that spans not only multiple books but different genres, even different art forms.

In Houses of Ravicka, the city's comptroller, author of Regulating the Book of Regulations, seems to have lost a house. It is not where it's supposed to be, though an invisible house on the far side of town, which corresponds to the missing house, remains appropriately invisible. Inside the invisible house, a nameless Ravickian considers how she came to the life she is living, and investigates the deep history of Ravicka--that mysterious city-country born of Renee Gladman's philosophical, funny, audacious, extraordinary imagination.

Author: Renee Gladman
ISBN-10: 0997366664
ISBN-13: 9780997366662
Publisher: Dorothy a Publishing Project
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2017
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 6.90h x 5.40w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2017
Publishers Weekly 10/02/2017