Breeze Avenue

[Ya Sam]

Breeze Avenue tells the story of an alcoholic Scrabble player and poet, 
Michelangelo Goldberg, who gives away a fortune in order to move to Venice 
Beach and find God. Over the years, Goldberg creates a number of outlandish 
works that form the basis of a gigantic novel.

Goldberg becomes entangled in the death of a young autistic woman who works 
at the beach as a clown, blowing up balloons for children. This, among other 
situations, forces him into a spiritual reappraisal, disclosing a heavenly 
realm, an interior world that is ultimately expressed as a radical revision 
in the nature of fiction.

There are twenty-six "elements," or distinct texts, in Breeze Avenue. The 
novel is three million pages in length and will be permanently installed in 
a reading room in Los Angeles in 2007.

Sections of the book draw upon information from Egyptology, architecture, 
metaphysics, software development, screenwriting, geology, Vedic and 
Biblical studies, graphic, fabric and product design, ornithology, 
performance art, linguistics, film production, astronomy, political, 
literary and social theory, material science, acoustics, musical 
instrumentation, animation, cryptology, sleep theory, mathematics, 
entomology, photography, and lexicography. Documents are produced in Latin, 
Yiddish, Mongolian, Egyptian and Sanskrit, as well as in English. Many of 
the elements are poetic in nature. The texts, in many cases, spawn concrete 
objects and occurrences that have a life of their own outside the novel.

  © Richard Grossman

http://www.richardgrossman.com/main.html

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