Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge Gladman ReneePaperback
Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge Gladman ReneePaperback Fiction. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. It is tempting to read the Ravickian books as an extended allegory--of architecture itself,…
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Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge Gladman ReneePaperback
Fiction. African American Studies. LGBT Studies.
It is tempting to read the Ravickian books as an extended allegory--of architecture itself, perhaps, except that architecture is already half-allegorical, its every element raised to prefigure whatever meanings can make their way to them. ANA PATOVA CROSSES A BRIDGE is the third volume of Renee Gladman's magnificent, melancholy series about the city-state of Ravicka, or about the architectures of its absence. If any can.
In Ravicka, meanings--indeed most contact of any kind--remain in abeyance, building, in absentia, the constitutive negative spaces of the narrative. There is a plot; it lays out zones of sheer ambience. Experiences, of which there are many, unfold as a redolent lingering in the structures of immateriality, the radical realities of the insubstantial.
Gladman is a philosopher of architecture, though not that of buildings.