A fiction of the city as a chorus of voices, an entity that is both one and many   Marream Krollos’s Big City is astructurally innovative work of prose composed of vignettes, verse, dialogues, monologues, and short stories. Alone, they are fragments, but together they offer a glimpse of the human condition and form a harmonized narrative of desire, loneliness, and beauty. Through language that builds, destroys, and violates, Krollos maps the geography of our contemporary condition, a haunting meditation on human togetherness and isolation.   Krollos plays with the tension between the voice of the lonely “I” produced by the urban experience and the polyphony of the city itself. A city is a chorus and a collection of traces; it is a way of being with others and the concretization of the social divisions that keep people apart. As a lifelong city dweller, Krollos is obsessed with the way that cities shape our experiences of the world, our ideas about inside and outside and self and other.   By mapping the emotional highs and lows of particular (though often anonymous) beings, the book creates a geography of the urban consciousness. The sensation of reading this lyric work of fiction is akin to how one experiences an attentive walk in an unknown city: one becomes attuned to the tenor of its many voices, how the languages lift and flourish, and how the micro and macro became integrally linked.

Big City

Literature & Fiction

Krollos, Marream

Literary

Fiction Collective 2

Sermons espouses the holiness and sanctity of our own physical being, holding the human experience in a supernatural light and questioning its existence with both agnosticism and piety. Krollos' examinations of the earthbound condition beg us to believe in ourselves.

Sermons

Poetry

Vegetarian Alcoholic Press

Fiction. STAN puts the reader quickly into the throes of fresh madness, with a voice as committed to lyrical beauty as it is to understanding our species' basest, most persistent desires. The titular object of affection is just one of the many subjects that its narrator yearns for, as she confesses her shame, desire, and humiliations with a rigor and insight that will make Marream Krollos, author also of FC2's Big City, an author worth following for years to come. "This is a report from a wound that is a kaleidoscope. Written from the outpost of the female body--which is at least here to say a threatened, denigrated, unfairly framed place--Krollos suggests (in a lineage with Qiu Miaojin, Christine Angot...) that obsession, yearning, and unashamed negativity, too, are antidotes to the popular sentence. Perfect as novella, this packet of restless anguish is a good look at what the world looks like from something stung."--Caren Beilin "According to the narrator of Marream Krollos's STAN, if you stare at your lips long enough, 'they eventually begin to look like foreign things and not like lips at all. They become a shape you are interested in, a shape you might want to understand with your mouth.' Likewise with this novel, which stares down your assumptions about what is good and what is bad, about what is pretty and what is ugly, about what is worth loving and what is not. Until nothing looks, sounds, feels, smells or tastes the same: a place to begin (gently, softly) again. I would call this a beautiful and moving book, if such words were still available."--Elisabeth Sheffield "Bleak, terribly terribly beautiful and absolutely modern, Marream Krollos' STAN is an exquisite and original cri de couer, written in blood and flesh, with sentences that explode like grenades, piercing our hearts with fine glass shrapnel."--Jeffrey DeShell

STAN

United States

Meekling Press

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