Black Leopard, Red Wolf

[rich]

PS. movie/tv rights have been acquired. all i'll say is good luck with
that.

rich

On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 9:16 AM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> all
>
> 200+ pgs in to Marlon James' new novel. If you've read Seven Killings
> you'll be familiar with the highly sex'd (mostly homoerotic variety) and
> brutally violent narratives Mr. James depicts (slavers, shape shifters,
> cannibals, witches, demons, you name it). Here, quite an interesting take
> on the fantasy genre (the African game of thrones misses the mark I
> think--James thankfully is a much better writer than whats his name),
> phantasmagorical actually in the way the Zone is. I sense Mr James has
> read  Delaney, Blood Meridian (so far a brief appearance of a Judge like
> character, big evil white dude who likes murdering children (though so do
> many other characters), Ben Okri, a bunch of folklore I'm sure, and much
> more.
> the structure is much like the manuscript found at saragossa--stories
> within stories, beginning with the main character's (Red Wolf)
> interrogation. There is a key to characters and a map though the narrative
> is hard to follow due to the shifting narratives--one is easily lost which
> may be the point.
> It's one long fever dream, well-worth getting lost in. Atrocities abound
> yes, but it does not fall into the trap of flighty weightless doings or  a
> disguised political science treatise on this guy vs this guy against
> another guy. there are no heroes, it is a Boschian landscape filled with
> terrors and mystery. what more could one want
>
> rich
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