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Ava Klein, thirty-nine, lover of life, world traveler, professor of comparative literature, is dying. From her hospital bed on this, her last day on earth, she makes one final ecstatic voyage. People, places, offhand memories, and imaginary things drift in and out of Ava's consciousness and weave their way through the narrative. The voices of her three former husbands emerge: Francesco, a filmmaker from Rome; Anatole, lost in the air over France; Carlos, a teenager from Granada. The ways people she loved expressed themselves in letters or at the beach or at the moment of desire return to her. There is Danilo, her current lover, a Czech novelist, and others, lovers of one night, as she sings the endless, joyous, erotic song cycles of her life, because "Dusk and the moment right before shapes are taken back is erotic. And the dark". The voices of her literary loves as well are woven into the narrative: Woolf, Eliot, Nabokov, Beckett, Sarraute, Lorca, Frisch, among others. These writers comment on and help guide us through the text. We hear the voices of her parents, who survived the Treblinka death camp, and of her Aunt Sophie, who did not. War permeates the text, for on Ava Klein's last day Iraq has invaded Kuwait. And above all we hear Ava's voice. Hers is the voice of pleasure, of astonishment, the voice of regret, the voice of gratitude as she moves closer and closer to the "music that is silence". Ava is an attempt, in the words of French feminist philosopher Helene Cixous, "to come up with a language that heals as much as it separates". The fragments of the novel are combined to make a new kind of wholeness, allowing environments, states of mind, and rhythms not ordinarilyassociated with fiction to emerge. Ava's theme is the poignancy of mortality, the extraordinary desire to live, the inevitability of death - the things never done, never understood, the things never said, or said right, or said enough. Ava yearns and the reader yearns with her, struggling to hold on to all that slips away. "I came to celebrate. I came to praise", Ava says, and on every page she does just that - marveling at the mystery of her precious, disappearing life: the pressure of the tide, the sea-soaked steps, wild roses and rose hips, the finches at the feeder, the way the swing swung. "We took the overnight train", she says. "You kissed me everywhere. A beautiful, passing landscape. Imagined in the dark".
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- Title Ava
- Author Carole Maso
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 274
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dalkey Archive Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.
- Date April 1993
- ISBN 9781564780294 / 1564780295
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9.31 x 5.81 x 1 in (23.65 x 14.76 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92035600
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 05/01/1993, Page 1570
- Library Journal, 04/01/1993, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 03/15/1993, Page 0
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Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.: Dalkey Archive Press, 1993. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ava's theme is the poignancy of mortality, the extrordinary desire to live, the inevitibility of death - the things never done..." 265 pp. plus: Acknowledgments, Sources. White cloth covered boards have black text on spine only. Spine ends are very lightly rubbed, ow book is as new. Pristine text block, illustrated ep's. Unclipped ($19.95) DJ has spine ends' edge wear, tiny chip at tail, small indentation front gutter. Digital images available on request. Bookseller's Inventory # 122882
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