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thedeepening. com Uncorrected Proof is a postmodern novel that entertainingly riffs on form, style, character, tense, person but with an overall thriller/quest type plot appropriation, it folds you into its delicious bizarro metascapes and humorous oftsatirical, ofthomagical visions.
'Literaryminded' Australia
Uncorrected Proof could be seen as a labyrinthically shaped manydimensional map, pointing above and beyond itself by showing mirrored images of other places in literary time and space.
And that's one reason why you do not feel trapped by the, also present, postmodern paranoia, In this book as in real life, Painting pictures pointing beyond themselves out into a vast literary universe, you may feel lost in a labyrinth but it can, and for me does, feel like an opening, or a broad road, in it's freedom to play out and stay away from an apparent order of themes according to fit the forms in the styles of the past, and norms or ideas of originality and individuality.
The text stretches out of and becomes wider than the thickening plot, which is something I think can be inferred if employing multiple perspectives on the puzzle pieces presented which, to use the map metaphor again, can be viewed from a distance at the same time as you are caught up in it/them.
'Kristin Johannesson, Sweden
Beneath this quixotic and playful novel that reveals a very deft hand at the pen is a significant novel that asks of itself the question that makes readers of lesser novels so often shake their heads: Does this work have any significance Here we must emphatically nod.
We are reminded exactly how enormous this artform can be, covering as it can any armature at allfrom one repeated note to twelvethousand pages of twelvetone serial technique, from hastily slung handholdy storytelling to tangrammatically constructed transgressive metafictions.
The ultimate postmodern novel is, after all, the interface of everything, And Alba points us there with joy and aplomb, 'Journal of Experimental Fiction' USA
Given all the literary byplay and conceptual ambition, the story is still amazingly accessible, so when you are able to pick up on a particular author or style, it just adds to its kicky pleasure.
Pacific Rim Books, Canada
Funny, postmodern a work of literary ingeniousness, . a rare find. Here is a really good review from a really good reviewer, LiteraryMinded
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Can something be playfully and overtly postmodern and still be readable driving you through a compelling plot Louisiana Alba proves it can be done.
Uncorrected Proof is a postmodern novel that entertainingly riffs on form, style, character, tense, person but with an overall thriller/quest type plot appropriation, it folds you into its delicious bizarro metascapes and humorous oftsatirical, ofthomagical visions.
Somehow Alba if thats who she really is death of the author etc, incorporates stylistic elements of hardboiled fiction, screenplays, cookbooks, metafiction, the spy novel, cyberpunk, the literary novel, A Clockwork Orange, Gaelic, intertextuality, memoir and so much more in a book that selfconsciously satirises the entire book and publishing industry authors, editors, publishers literary celebrity, literary delusions, literary snobbery, literary stupidity and so on.
So whats it about Archies novel manuscript has been pilfered
and plagiarized by Martyn Varginas, prolific mystery writer.
Archie and his friend Cal plot a convoluted revenge through Archie getting work as an editor, and employing a replagiarisation of the book by a young hiredgun or pen, as it were.
What follows are kidnappings, political intrigues, sex, jaunts to New York and Paris from London, Stakeouts, party crashings, a couple of book launches, boardroom drunkenness, author cameo appearances, mean streets, cop/spy banter, and a few disturbing murders.
I was completely absorbed in this book somehow Alba makes it so easy to read, despite the switcheroos in style, and shifts in narrative drive and character motivation.
The books title Uncorrected Proof displays irony those not in bookselling or publishing may be unfamiliar with a proof copy or uncorrected proof books that become available before release, oftunedited versions of the final with spacing, grammatical and typing errors.
This published book, has a few tongueincheek placed throughout,
Alba has worked in publishing, and is actually avoiding traditional distribution methods for the book, keeping in the uberhip underground spirit of the novel with a wellhandled guerilla internet and outofhand distribution system.
I came across the author through Facebook,
This book proves to me that extraordinary talent can be represented through shunning traditional publishing methods, This book is inventive, imaginative, and inspiring, It is a unique publication, If you enjoy Italo Calvino or John Fowles, or if you also work or have worked in the book industry, even on the fringes, you would get a great kick out of this novel.
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Joy and a Plum, August,
By
Eckhard A, Gerdes "Eckhard Gerdes" Illinois See all my reviews
REAL NAME This review is from: Uncorrected Proof Paperback
This book was finished when it was Finnished, printed and bound in Finland, bound for England, and bound to arouse curiosity on many levels.
Following in the footsteps of old Dublin Jim, Louisiana Alba draws from Homer the armature to build a novel upon.
Rather than the Odyssey, here it is the Iliad, but the characters are as recognizable as Molly Bloom was as Penelope: Archie Lees Achilles.
Anthony Gamenman Agamemnon. Menny Lowes Menelaus. Ellen Spartan The face that launched a thousand novels, Here, as in Homer, Ellen is a willing participant in her "rape" and runs off, in this case, to rather than with Paris.
What was really stolen here, however, is not just joy and a plum, not just one man's babe, but rather, one's man's baby, Archie's brainchild, his novel, stolen by Folio Publishing.
So Archie infiltrates Folio in order to subvert the publication plans,
The sections are written in a multitude of styles, the way old Dublin Jim recaps the history of literature by parodying, in the famous "Oxen of the Sun" chapter, the various styles of English prose preceding modernism.
Louisiana Alba includes the modern and postmodern and takes on Anthony Burgess, Albert Camus, Jay McInerney, Ernest Hemingway, Don DeLillo, and dozens of others, including old Dublin Jim himself.
The names of those parodied or homage appear in the acknowledgments, Droogs, strangers, the mysterious second person, fish, and JFK all populate the background of the mise en scene, all to delightful effect.
Beneath this quixotic and playful novel that reveals a very deft hand at the pen is a significant novel that asks of itself the question that makes readers of lesser novels so often shake their heads: Does this work have any significance Here we must emphatically nod.
We are reminded exactly how enormous this artform can be, covering as it can any armature at allfrom one repeated note to twelvethousand pages of twelvetone serial technique, from hastily slung handholdy storytelling to tangrammatically constructed transgressive metafictions.
The ultimate postmodern novel is, after all, the interface of everything, And Alba points us there with joy and aplomb,
Eckhard Gerdes, Journal of Experimental FictionFiction, His espionage novel stolen by a celebrity "sweeper" author, Archie Lees embarks on a helterskelter odyssey seeking justice inside the dark worlds of AngloAmerican publishing, the tale swinging from London to Barcelona, New York, AiguesMortes and back again over twelve months, Novemberto October.
Louisiana Alba ransacks categories, voices and genres, excavating plagiarism and influence, reanimating modernism, realism, magic realism, poetry, pop, drama, screenwriting and the postmodernist novel, defrocking the methods and madness of major and minor literary techniques and reputations in a century of writerly solitude.
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