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There are times when the sources of an imaginative act, of the specific conditions of mood and temperament we believe assemble it, seem as much to the point as the thing itself, as the creation - in this case, the stories and the novella - that are their result. Amazingly, or perhaps expectably, Brian Evenson is a devout Mormon, an unequivocal believer, a bishop in the Church. In this vein, it seems necessary to say that Evenson is married, that he is the father of two little girls, and that he conducts classes as a faculty member at Brigham Young University. In other words, Evenson appears, in every particular, to be the very destroyer of what - in this most shocking book - he is instead the maker of. It could be claimed that Evenson's unimprovable devotion to The Book of Mormon, his text of perfect revelation, invoked in him something infernally human - the artist, never first but forever a figure made visible, made audible, only by being elsewhere, only by being in solitude. Altmann's Tongue is a theater of solitudes. Its moods are chilling, its temperament is cold, and the episodes that construe its twenty-five short fictions and the long fiction, The Sanza Affair, are, in ever

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Author

Evenson, Brian, 1966-

Publisher

New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679429128

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Horror

Rating

4.19 / 5 (23 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14