Book Review – Illicit Blade of Grass by John Reyer Afamasaga

John Reyer Afamasaga is nothing if not an author. His novella "Illicit Blade of Grass" is just one small example of the generous scope of its planned work of emotional techno-fiction. Afamasaga has three works to date: "Illicit Blade of Grass," "Wipe" and "John Lazoo" and He proposes to write in to write a total of ten books in his emotional techno-fiction series. Through the intertextuality of his works, in which characters appear not only in several works, but oftenare the authors and other creators of the planned works, it is difficult to determine whether "Illicit Blade of Grass," the first book in the series, but as a short story of nearly seventy-three pages, it is a good starting point for the Potential readers of cyclic and pseudo-epic Afamasaga stories.

Based on the novels of "textuality, it is difficult to give a plot description only for" Illicit blade of grass. "The book has a certain action, but readers Afamasaga'sother novels will find that it weaves in and out with the other plants. Basically, the story revolves around Metofeaz, a writer, and Rozelle, a specter is haunting the French villa where he stays. Rozelle maids had to recite a singer who heard all their lives waiting in vain, for a poet, she's poem "Illicit Blade of Grass," during a party at the villa sometime around World War II. Metofeaz meet the tourist who needs a place to stay, and he allows her to live in the villa with him. If Metofeaz returns toUnited States, remains the tourism in the villa, so they go home and under the identity Rozelle, until they are one and the same. Later the tourist Metofeaz followed to New York. Metofeaz is then an author, specifically, the author of "John Lazoo" (another book in this series, hence the intertextuality). Metofeaz now determined to make the most of his literary fame, which leads to additional complications.

The plot has more twists and turns and a few other characters,But this summary is enough for the reader to get to the core of the story of how he or she reads it. Afamasaga is determined to make his reader's attention, both from lack of descriptive terms to smooth scene shifts, and the confusion between the characters and the authors of several books. Afamasaga writes in the book, so that the reader wonders if Afamasaga is the real or fictional, or to what extent it meets a fictitious person, if it interactsIn the novel with the fictional creations. He has great reach its goal of blurring the line between reality and fiction.

I write loads of words to define Afamasaga style. It is polished and clever, and though at first evaded appearing together by an amateur, it is trying to sign a professional weaving together fiction and reality. The style is minimalist lacking in comprehensive description so that the reader must pay in a fast pace of the author.The book's genre is hard to define, even Afamasaga in a recent interview, noted that he believes that his books will be classified as fantasy, but he called his craft Emotional Techno Fiction (etfiction). The author wants his readers to his experience that the love and experience "in the range of feelings one has when they fall in love" (see interview with Afamasaga Superior Book Promotions). The patterns of techno music and the influence of technologyhave on our life that influenced his work.

Perhaps these are fantasy novels or emotional techno-fiction, but they are closely aligned with the modern and postmodern movements. I am the clever play of James Joyce, the sound of Andre Gide in "The Counterfeiters" and Nabokov's combination of fiction and reality in mind "Pale Fire". And oddly enough, this intensely modern novel also calls to mind and his epics of Homer and the author of "Beowulf". TheIntertextuality between Afamasaga's novels makes the reader feel that he is only reading fragments of an otherwise lost masterpiece. Be excavated "Illicit Blade of Grass" is only a fragment of a larger work, most of whom are still in the brain of the author, waiting to be discovered and put on paper for the readers. Open the lost lines from "Beowulf", we hope that the rest of the opus Afamasaga be transcribed and preserved. Total Afamasaga intends to ten novels combined in this letterSeries. I advise the reader to visit his website http://www.etfiction.com and look at both the timeline section in which he gives an overview of the historical events in the lives of his characters and the development area, and describes the future novels where they fit into this fusion of character relationships.

John Reyer Afamasaga itself is as much a mystery as his books, for he has deliberately mixed into the fiction of his works. He lives in Australia. Whatlittle more can be known of him, if anything, one must try, together pieces from his novels. He is like the "mute inglorious Milton" Homer, we can only know through his writings. In short, the author is much like his characters, his inability to be defined between fiction and reality, like his fictional alter ego Metofeaz, whose writing is thus described in the "Illicit Blade of Grass:

His characters, open the lids of their coffins and push the dirt that covers their doors,not withstand the rules of time and aging skin. Their voices races, and then cast doubt on the here and now, they are there and then? Or are they everywhere?

To explore the mysterious fictional world of John Reyer Afamasaga, you need only visit his website http://www.etfiction.com and a free download "unauthorized blade of grass." Visit is now before the mystery novels Afamasaga of material reality, and his books with a price.

– Tyler R. Tichelaar, Ph.D. and author of the book"The Marquette Trilogy."

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