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The Myth Man

av Elizabeth Swados

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"This exhilarating novel gives us penetrating insight into the realities and delusions of men and power through the eyes of a mute and perceptive eleven-year-old girl. Rikki Nelson - abused, willfully silent, but curious and resilient - is abandoned by her father to a theater troupe of modern-day gypsies led by an enchantingly charismatic artistic genius, Sasha Volotny. With Sasha's collaborator and brother, Charles, a world-famous ex-drag queen, as her nanny, Rikki Nelson is nurtured into adolescence by her eccentric communal family amid the increasingly perilous carnival atmosphere of the late 1960s and early '70s." "Sasha's charismatic brilliance binds his actors to him, as to a guru: his authority and creative genius cast a spell and convince his followers that he alone knows the alchemy that will turn their individual pain into collective triumph. Their electrifying "metaphysical vaudeville" show The Myth Man dazzles audiences and critics, bringing fame and countercultural adulation, first in New York, then abroad, as they push on, taking ever-higher risks, attempting to force theater and reality to become one. As the level of personal commitment and sacrifice is raised. Sasha's quest ultimately leads them on a trek deep into the Amazon, where they are plunged into a Theater of Madness."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved… (mer)
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Swados too often speaks for her characters rather than letting her characters speak for themselves. The exposition and basic idea is intriguing: interesting if a bit self-consciously quirky set of characters, nice idea of a playwright and company using myth to expose and comment upon the essence of modern culture, and healthy smattering of various myths and cultural traditions.

But disappointing that the mythopoeic allusions won't instruct, unless the full myths are already familiar. And the denouement is painfully bad: perhaps Swados is thinking of Heart of Darkness or Aguierre or Rev Jim Jones, but if that's it, her plotting, writing, and action don't add anything to those original sources. For example: does Sasha, the erstwhile (and allegedly brilliantly gifted) leader, really think that a group of actors will learn how to live off the land in a matter of months or even years? Either Swados really pushed a load of rubbish on the reader in assuming we'd buy that, or the idea that Sasha suddenly started living in myth-time (in which events taking place over generations are depicted as personal interactions) deluded her into thinking it would work as a literal plot device. In the end, I'm not persuaded of anything but that Sasha and his group completely failed to implement or "test" their idea of getting back to nature. The experiment didn't fail so much as the experimenters did.

I'd given it 3 stars mid-way through, but it really doesn't live up to its own promise. ( )
1 rösta elenchus | Mar 13, 2009 |
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"This exhilarating novel gives us penetrating insight into the realities and delusions of men and power through the eyes of a mute and perceptive eleven-year-old girl. Rikki Nelson - abused, willfully silent, but curious and resilient - is abandoned by her father to a theater troupe of modern-day gypsies led by an enchantingly charismatic artistic genius, Sasha Volotny. With Sasha's collaborator and brother, Charles, a world-famous ex-drag queen, as her nanny, Rikki Nelson is nurtured into adolescence by her eccentric communal family amid the increasingly perilous carnival atmosphere of the late 1960s and early '70s." "Sasha's charismatic brilliance binds his actors to him, as to a guru: his authority and creative genius cast a spell and convince his followers that he alone knows the alchemy that will turn their individual pain into collective triumph. Their electrifying "metaphysical vaudeville" show The Myth Man dazzles audiences and critics, bringing fame and countercultural adulation, first in New York, then abroad, as they push on, taking ever-higher risks, attempting to force theater and reality to become one. As the level of personal commitment and sacrifice is raised. Sasha's quest ultimately leads them on a trek deep into the Amazon, where they are plunged into a Theater of Madness."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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