Comments on: EVER: A Review

By: EVER/Blake Butler | A necessary sort of pain

EVER/Blake Butler | A necessary sort of pain — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:06:40 +0000

[...] “The house – that which physically confines the narrator is the very same thing that launches and enables [her] hyper-solipsist narration. Ceilings, windows, and doors are mentioned in a frenetic way, unable to establish space or location. We get the sense of entropy happening, we just don’t know where: outside the house, inside the room, or — terrifyingly – inside the body.”(Jimmy Chen, quoted from HTMLGIANT) [...]

By: daveg

daveg — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:41:55 +0000

i read the book this weekend. it’s one of those books that i think should be re-read … that reveals more nuance/levels the more it’s probed. it’s like an instrumental vs. a song w/ lyrics. w/ lyrics, U know where U stand. w/ just music, a multitude of interpretations/revelations are possible.

EVER reminds me vaguely of Anais Nin’s HOUSE OF INCEST, a very dreamlike novella about loss/love/memory/fear etc…. all the emotions and experiences distilled and filtered thru language…

By: daveg

daveg — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:41:00 +0000

EVER reminds me vaguely of Anais Nin’s HOUSE OF INCEST, a very dreamlike novella about loss/love/memory/fear etc…. all the emotions and experiences distilled and filtered thru language…

By: keith n b

keith n b — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:25:43 +0000

“…the body is not an entity, but an event.”

i just wanted to repeat that line, so that i might abide in that idea a little longer.

jimmy, i think that clarifying idea is vital not only for the text, but for being alive as a whole. a whole with many holes: holes which enable the event itself.

By: keith n b

keith n b — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:25:00 +0000

“…the body is not an entity, but an event.”

i just wanted to repeat that line, so that i might abide in that idea a little longer.

jimmy, i think that clarifying idea is vital not only for the text, but for being alive as a whole. a whole with many holes: holes which enable the event itself.

By: blake

blake — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 06:49:10 +0000

wow, thank you for such a thoughtful and in depth review jimmy. really awesome to come home to.

i like the idea of the book as a hermaphrodite. this is a marketing option i had not considered. its my only hope for oprah. and its on.

seriously though, thank you for the kind eye and words.

By: blake

blake — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 06:49:00 +0000

wow, thank you for such a thoughtful and in depth review jimmy. really awesome to come home to.

i like the idea of the book as a hermaphrodite. this is a marketing option i had not considered. its my only hope for oprah. and its on.

seriously though, thank you for the kind eye and words.

By: Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacey — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:04:25 +0000

Jimmy, this just downright silly. Everyone knows that Blake doesn’t know what a metaphor is.

By: Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacey — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:04:00 +0000

Jimmy, this just downright silly. Everyone knows that Blake doesn’t know what a metaphor is.