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Title	:	Ava
Author	:	Carole Maso
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 220 pages
Published	:	May 1st 2002 by Dalkey Archive Press (first published 1993)
Categories	:	Fiction. Poetry. Novels. Contemporary

Ava Paperback | Pages: 220 pages

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From her hospital bed on this, her last day on earth, she makes one final ecstatic voyage. People, places, offhand memories, and imaginary things drift in and out of Ava's consciousness and weave their way through the narrative. The voices of her three former husbands emerge: Francesco, a filmmaker from Rome; Anatole, lost in the air over France; Carlos, a teenager from Granada. The ways people she loved expressed themselves in letters or at the beach or at the moment of desire return to her. There is Danilo, her current lover, a Czech novelist, and others, lovers of one night, as she sings the endless, joyous, erotic song cycles of her life, because "Dusk and the moment right before shapes are taken back is erotic. And the dark."

The voices of her literary loves as well are woven into the narrative: Woolf, Eliot, Nabokov, Beckett, Sarraute, Lorca, Frisch, among others. These writers comment on and help guide us through the text. We hear the voices of her parents, who survived the Treblinka death camp, and of her Aunt Sophie, who did not. War permeates the text, for on Ava Klein's last day Iraq has invaded Kuwait. And above all we hear Ava's voice. Hers is the voice of pleasure, of astonishment, the voice of regret, the voice of gratitude as she moves closer and closer to the "music that is silence."

AVA is an attempt, in the words of French feminist philosopher Helene Cixous, "to come up with a language that heals as much as it separates." The fragments of the novel are combined to make a new kind of wholeness, allowing environments, states of mind, and rhythms not ordinarily associated with fiction to emerge. AVA's theme is the poignancy of mortality, the extraordinary desire to live, the inevitability of death&amp—the things never done, never understood, the things never said, or said right, or said enough. Ava yearns and the reader yearns with her, struggling to hold on to all that slips away.

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Original Title:	Ava
ISBN:	1564780740 (ISBN13: 9781564780744)
Edition Language:	English

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This book truly touched my heart in a way I have difficulty describing. I find it hard to write this review without revealing too many details. It is a story of a woman who is dying, and it is her last day on earth. The words are her thoughts as the day progresses. It is a beautiful, circular mantra that reveals the details of her life slowly, lyrically. Reading this book is really visceral for me. I read it for the first time while in college -- but I have come back to it so many times since

In this absolutely extraordinary book, the reader eavesdrops on the fractured consciousness of middle-aged Ava Klein as she dies in her hospital bed of a blood disease. Going through her mind are all sorts of memories, lists, poems, and sensations from throughout her peripatetic and romantic life, told in a series of brief aphorisms. She had marriages and affairs with a movie director, a schoolfriend, a Mexican family man, a Czech dissident writer, and many others whose voices and actions come

This is not an easy book, a fragmented novel - the consciousness of a single character on their last day on earth - made up of short blocks of text separated by white space. It is very much up to you to put the blocks together to weave the strands of Ava's life. It's very much non-linear, often without attributions and sentence subjects. But I do think it's worth it. There's a lot of beauty in this book, an attention to sensual detail, and to sex. The relation of the body to the text, to not

3.75/5 (I think it earns 4/5 upon multiple readings...as I'm starting the book again and loving it more)This could have been so much better... everything is here for an incredible climax, or...something that kind of makes it all come together. Unfortunately, or probably I missed something, from beginning to end it is pretty much the same. Which, however, is all quite good. I think it invites a second reading. And considering how easy it is, perhaps it demands one.Ava Klein is dying on the day

Comparisons between Ava and many of my favourite books could be made in this review, but to stop it becoming a pages-long celebration of a whole pile of books, Ill keep it short and focus on the ones that help highlight why you might (or should) read Masos Ava.The structure of Ava as a novel feels far more closely aligned with poetry, where breaks between lines allow a breathing of the mind and freedom for each block of text to be interpreted as its own entity. Through this breathing room,

Great novel in verse. I love the experimental narrative and its fragmented nature. I also love all of the white space.What was disappointing to me is that although white space was used very well throughout--between disjointed lines and paragraphs--there was no breathing room. I'm okay with this in a shorter piece, but when reading a 200-page novel, even if it is fragmented, I still need to have the ability to stop.Form is a function of content, but one continuous disjointed narrative, as far as

when you start this novel you may think, damn, this isn't going to be any fun watching this woman die in this bed. but it is completely redeeming and so beautiful to listen to her talk about her life. i guess my idea is that she had to die to tell me her story.