![]() ![]() Filled with beauty, horror, and a cleansing rage, this book casts a searing eye over the corrupted relationship between women, men, and Art. ![]() Review Quotes Anonyma is an explosion of language and imagery, dense and uncompromising. Anonyma is a novel full of blood and love and despair and courage. ![]() But she also holds the mirror to herself, her sisters, even, daring to hope, a daughter. Anonyma, novel and narrator, holds up a dark mirror to our paradigm of art as a kind of device for reducing women to Platonic ideals while staging theophanies for men. Yet, it is not so much a tale of vengeance or comeuppance as it is a heroines journey, as Anonyma survives doomscapes almost beyond imagination and the transgressions of mere men, mere artists, survives the horrors imposed upon the feminine to rediscover her own magic and power. In this shockingly lyrical, endlessly rich and luxurious nightmare of a novel, the Muse turns. Book Synopsis The history of art is littered with Great Men and the Muses they use as stepping stones to brilliance. ![]()
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