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Geisha girls are all angry, they are made that way. A life of subservience is calculated to cause that kind of hidden rage. I see it in Anna, a geisha girl in a mask. She thinks she is serving, she believes by trying to make p for her guilt she has placed herself in a position which she sees as beneath her.
I don't know about you, but I've had the what-is-the-purpose-of-art discussion a couple times in my life. There are several school of thoughts on the question, but if you take enough perspective on it, you can gather people in three camps, according to their answer; 1) entertainment 2) inspiration and 3) a vector of new ideas. Richard Godwin's new novel MEANINGFUL CONVERSATIONS can be filed in the third category, as it's a deconstruction of the very notion of structure in our society. It's a short, extremely ambitious, nihilistic and powerful piece of satire about the hollow core or our existence.
It's difficult to summarize the story of MEANINGFUL CONVERSATIONS, because it becomes unhinged at the halfway mark, but I'll try my best. Bertrand Maves is a cello player that's struggling with powerful erotic pulsions. He's seeing a therapist in order to help him gain perspective and better control these said pulsions, but that therapist has other ideas in mind for Bertrand. The world in which Bertrand lives in is all about the weight of tradition and social etiquette, but therapist Otto has plans to create a new world, and Bertrand has plans to become someone else and take control of both the world Otto has created, and the world he lives in.
MEANINGFUL CONVERSATIONS is satire, which doesn't mean it's supposed to be funny, but it's supposed to be taken with a grain of salt. It's angry, violent, Jodorowskian satire meant to point out the ridiculous structures by which we lead our lives: monogamy, social conventions, rational thinking, even the very structure of the novel. MEANINGFUL CONVERSATIONS takes a mean pleasure in reminding us or our animalistic origins and of the profoundly chaotic nature of creation also. It's a nihilistic novel because it questions the very fabric of society itself and denounces the fallacy of having to fight off our utmost primal urges on a daily basis. Over the last 20 or so pages, Richard Godwin just lets his psychotronic vision loose on the page and it's quite a sight to behold.
There are novels that elude the process of categorization and MEANINGFUL CONVERSATIONS, despite being published by Noir Nation, is a way more complex and ambitious ventures than a straight out noir novel. It's an existential, surreal and erotically charged noir thriller. Richard Godwin created maybe his most unique object of literature with MEANINGFUL CONVERSATIONS, which should be out this month. It's a novel you have to read with an open mind. It might be not the best novel to enter the demented realm of Richard Godwin with, because he's pushing the boundaries of his own writing philosophy in it. It's a short and loaded thrill ride though. It's difficlt for me not to like a novel that aims to redefine the very world I live in.
There are novels that elude the process of categorization and MEANINGFUL CONVERSATIONS, despite being published by Noir Nation, is a way more complex and ambitious ventures than a straight out noir novel. It's an existential, surreal and erotically charged noir thriller. Richard Godwin created maybe his most unique object of literature with MEANINGFUL CONVERSATIONS, which should be out this month. It's a novel you have to read with an open mind. It might be not the best novel to enter the demented realm of Richard Godwin with, because he's pushing the boundaries of his own writing philosophy in it. It's a short and loaded thrill ride though. It's difficlt for me not to like a novel that aims to redefine the very world I live in.