6/6/2023 0 Comments The flame alphabet![]() Finally, the narrator describes how he and Claire have become increasingly worn down by trying to pretend. ![]() David Cooper is the author of two poetry ebooks, Glued to the Sky and JFK: Lines of Fire, the translator of Little Promises by Rachel Eshed, a journalist at, and. It’s also a mystery, a compulsive page-turner and is told in a relatively straightforward, linear way very few postmodern sleights of hand. ![]() The narrator suggests that he, Claire, and others like them are fleeing some kind of language-based plague, one that did not affect their children in the same body-sickening way), adding that he and Claire are leaving in the way they are to avoid seeing Esther being captured by police. In 'The Flame Alphabet,' his third novel, Ben Marcus, an unabashed apologist of experimental prose, has gone linear with a fiction that probes the terrible conceit that every time a child speaks. As Duke Ellington might have put it, The Flame Alphabet is beyond category, recommended to anyone who appreciates fine, albeit sad, writing and a well told story. The Flame Alphabet is a novel at every sentence. At first it only affects Jews-then everyone. ![]() He also describes the debilitated, catatonic condition of his wife Claire, who responds to the plans to evacuate (plans handed down “from Rochester” (5)) with a sort of whispered anger that the narrator says is typical of conversations between marriage partners. The speech of children has mutated into a virus which is killing their parents. The first-person narrator describes various pieces of equipment that he is leaving with during what seems to be an evacuation, paying particular narrative attention to a collection of various recordings of his daughter Esther’s speech. ![]()
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