Where the Bird Sings Best, by Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Where the Bird Sings Best, by Alejandro Jodorowsky
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The magnum opus from Alejandro Jodorowsky—director of The Holy Mountain, star of Jodorowsky’s Dune, spiritual guru behind Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot, innovator behind classic comics The Incal and Metabarons, and legend of Latin American literature.There has never been an artist like the polymathic Chilean director, author, and mystic Alejandro Jodorowsky. For eight decades, he has blazed new trails across a dazzling variety of creative fields. While his psychedelic, visionary films have been celebrated by the likes of John Lennon, Marina Abramovic, and Kanye West, his novels—praised throughout Latin America in the same breath as those of Gabriel García Márquez—have remained largely unknown in the English-speaking world. Until now. Where the Bird Sings Best tells the fantastic story of the Jodorowskys’ emigration from Ukraine to Chile amidst the political and cultural upheavals of the 19th and 20th centuries. Like One Hundred Years of Solitude, Jodorowsky’s book transforms family history into heroic legend: incestuous beekeepers hide their crime with a living cloak of bees, a czar fakes his own death to live as a hermit amongst the animals, a devout grandfather confides only in the ghost of a wise rabbi, a transgender ballerina with a voracious sexual appetite holds a would-be saint in thrall. Kaleidoscopic, exhilarating, and erotic, Where the Bird Sings Best expands the classic immigration story to mythic proportions.
Where the Bird Sings Best, by Alejandro Jodorowsky- Amazon Sales Rank: #281806 in Books
- Brand: Restless Books
- Published on: 2015-03-31
- Released on: 2015-03-31
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.30" w x 6.00" l, 1.50 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 416 pages
Review "Jodorowsky is today’s true Renaissance man—a master of many mediums that all point directly towards a towering and imaginative vision replete with profound insights into the real by way of the surreal. The stories told in Where the Bird Sings Best contain deep moral lessons, giving his mythic immigration story the feel of a modern day Sefer-ha-Aggadah—the classic collection of Jewish folktales. This long-awaited and brilliantly evocative translation is a must read—frightening, hilarious, outrageous, touching, and (as is always with Jodorowsky’s work) filled with a deep core of mystic truth." (John Zorn)“No one alive today, anywhere, has been able to demonstrate the sheer possibilities of artistic invention — and in so many disciplines — as powerfully as Alejandro Jodorowsky.… Where the Bird Sings Best... is his magnum opus, a fantastical something that in many ways mirrors the author himself: It is brilliant, mad, unpredictable.” (NPR Books)“Wildly inventive.… Jodorowsky’s masterpiece.... As the drama unfolds, the reader’s response veers from incredulity to awe, from doubt to delight. The momentum holds for the length of the novel as a cavalcade of outsized characters careen across the page in a frenzy that seems for once an adequate and just representation of the living fury that is history.” (The Los Angeles Review of Books)“Sober, dressed, and with all the lights on, I ripped through Where the Bird Sings Best — the first of Jodorowsky’s many novels to appear in English translation — in just a few enraptured days. The trick is to eschew caricature and give yourself over to the experience, at which point the wondrous strange takes over. The mind — and, god help me, the spirit — finds itself traveling in realms it could not have otherwise explored, or even dreamed exist.…Where the Bird Sings Best is electrifying.” (Barnes & Noble Review)“This epic family saga, reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude in structure and breadth, reads at a breakneck pace. Though ostensibly a novelization of the author's own family history, it is a raucous carnival of the surreal, mystical, and grotesque....It weaves together Jewish philosophy, passion, humor, Tarot, ballet, circuses, natural disasters, spectacular suicides, lion tamers, knife throwers, Catholic devotion, farmers, betrayals, prostitutes, leftist politics, political violence, and the ghost of a wise rabbi who follows the family from the Old World to the New.” (Publishers Weekly)“A sweeping tale of personal, philosophical, and political struggles. It’s an immigrant’s story of Fellini-esque proportions….For the self-proclaimed atheist mystic, the sacraments are memory, dreams, family, wisdom, the grotesque, and the reinvention of the self.” (Flavorwire)“Alejandro Jodorowsky [is] a superb novelist. Where the Bird Sings Best [is a] gloriously readable, fantastical autobiographical novel…. [A] deliciously far-fetched, multigenerational saga.... One outrageous set piece follows another with an exhilarating density of imagination as Jodorowsky juggles the tale within tale with Arabian Nights agility.… Exuberant, unrelentingly creative in its folkloric style of heightened reality... he expertly harnesses boldly surreal images to capture the gorgeous, brutal essence of life.” (Shelf Awareness (Nick’s Picks))“Each paragraph pulsates, threatens to burst from its burgeoning body of details. Jodorowsky relieves pressure as necessary. But time after time, he proceeds to build up and dazzle all over again..... Each individual section is endowed with Jodorowksy’s full vitality.” (The Jewish Book Council)"Gorgeous prose, imagination and a kaleidoscopic narrative style make for an altogether satisfying reading experience, one that is both joyous and unnerving at the same time. Read this if you liked Jodorowsky's films, Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian?." (Lit Reactor)
About the Author Alejandro Jodorowsky was born to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants in Tocopilla, Chile. At twenty-three, he left for Paris to pursue theater and the arts, and has lived there ever since. His classic films include The Holy Mountain, El Topo, Santa Sangre, and, most recently, The Dance of Reality. A prolific author, he has written novels, poetry, short stories, essays, and more than thirty successful comic books. www.restlessbooks.com
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful. Like 100 Years of Solitude Meets Tom Waits—on Acid By Avidity Jones Huge, weird, joyous, raunchy, full of family legends and disturbingly compelling and surreal incest, Tarot and Jewish mysticism, lovers embalmed in honey and lion tamers more lion than tamer, this book is crazy and yet also completely engrossing and relatable. Even if you haven't seen Jodorowsky's films (but even better if you have), you're in for a treat. I won't describe the plot, because it's impossible to describe, but if maximalism and sexual freedom and really excellent and inventive writing are your bag, then I highly recommend Where the Bird Sings Best.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Magically delicious. By Donald Beattie Purportedly a memoir, this novel is a rewriting of a troubled family history—a kind of supernatural origin story, the prequel to Jodorowsky’s "The Dance of Reality" of last year. Just as that film endowed a cruel and inhuman father with a shred of humanity and a voiceless mother with an operatic set of pipes, this book lends fullness and complexity to ancestral figures who would otherwise be lost to the past. The book seethes with twisting stories on either side of the author’s family tree, the thrust angling toward the eventual union of Jodorowsky’s parents at the subtle prompting of his prenatal, disembodied spirit. Rather than plot, though, this story deals primarily with striking images (the author is, after all, a filmmaker and graphic novelist). All varieties of graphic and violent sex, “monkey men” and “turtle women,” martyred strikers’ blood writing out the notes to a revolutionary hymn, a Jewish ghetto in Europe flying to Jerusalem every night, performing fleas and lions, suicides in vats of honey—such pictures remain emblazoned in the reader’s mind long after she finishes the book (something, I should note, I did very quickly!). Given its South American setting and multigenerational aspect, it’s tempting to call this book magical realism, but on the other hand, given the author’s psychedelic, out-there films, it’s also tempting to call it straight-up surrealism.Jewish and Catholic iconography bump shoulders with the shamanistic mumbo jumbo to be expected from someone who has written scores of books on the Tarot, I Ching, and “psychomagic,” and this text seems to present the practical manifestations of spiritual tenets Jodorowsky has laid out elsewhere. While perhaps unsettling for some, the book has a strong—if difficult to identify—moral center. Highly recommended, and I can’t wait to see more literary from this fascinating figure in the near future.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Some really cool passages and paragraphs that offer a new perspective on ... By karmasoda Very entertaining and full of creative, magical imagery. Quite lewd considering the content of the book is overwhelmingly religious, existential and spiritual. Some really cool passages and paragraphs that offer a new perspective on the commonplace ideologies found in books like this. All together, very enjoyable, engaging and hard to put down. A nice easy read.
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