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Aurorarama ReviewJean-Christophe Valtat's perplexing, yet beguiling, new novel "Aurorarama" may be one of the more difficult titles I've attempted to review. On one hand, I'm not entirely sure that the narrative makes sense. But on the other, I'm not sure that it matters. The prose is so fluid and intriguing that I was swept up in the language and imagery that Valtat was serving up even as the head-scratching plot twists unfolded. Part political treatise, part religious allegory--this novel blends elements of science fiction and fantasy into a setting rooted firmly in the past. A mass of fascinating contradictions, I was thoroughly captivated by the strange fictional world populating an Arctic city circa 1908 called New Venice.

The principle characters are Brentford Orsini and Gabriel d'Allier. While friends, their stories are told and tend to overlap in alternating chapters. Both have been close to the political heart of New Venice and both, in varying degrees of involvement, have become entrenched in the rebellion that has formed within the underbelly of the city. With Eskimo outlaws, a secret police force, a strange unexplained airship hovering over the city, visions and mysticism, magic and hypnotism--and lest I leave out my personal favorite, a ventriloquist's dummy with a nasty bite--Valtat's surrealism is part poetry, part lunacy.

I suspect "Aurorarama" will be a polarizing volume--you'll love its lyricism or you'll say "What the heck????" I really, really enjoyed the writing--the flow, the feel, the evocative nature that is created. But that said, I can't honestly say that I would recommend the book to very many people. It seems almost like a literary experiment that should be admired for its ambitions as opposed to a work to be universally embraced. For adventurous souls and something way off the beaten path, give this a look. On the strength of the writing alone, I'd have rated this about 3 1/2 stars--but I'm rounded up for the sheer imagination of it all.

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