Event Factory is the first in a series of novels (also available are the second, The Ravickians the third, Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge and the fourth, Houses of Ravicka ) that Renee Gladman is writing about the invented city-state of Ravicka, a foreign "other" place fraught with the crises of American urban experience, not least the fundamental problem of how to move through the world at all. At the core of her work is a critically acclaimed cycle of novels about the. She is the author of numerous books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Setting out to uncover the source of the city's erosion, she is beset by this other crisis-an ontological crisis-as she struggles to retain a sense of what is happening. Renee Gladmanwas born in Atlanta in 1971. Things happen to her, events transpire, but it is as if the city itself, the performance of life there, eludes her. EVENT FACTORY is the first in a trilogy of novels Renee Gladman is writing about the invented city-state of Ravicka, a foreign other place fraught with the. Although fluent in the native language, she quickly finds herself on the outside of every experience. "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 A "linguist-traveler" arrives by plane to Ravicka, a city of yellow air in which an undefined crisis is causing the inhabitants to flee.
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