{"title":"Ania Walwicz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnia Walwicz\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a unique voice in contemporary Arts \u0026amp; Culture, blending poetic expression with incisive insight. Her works, like \u003cem\u003ePalace of Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, explore themes of identity, memory, and the nuances of language with a lyrical intensity that challenges and captivates readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect a rich tapestry of thought and emotion, where poetry and prose intertwine to illuminate the complexities of human experience. Walwicz’s writing invites reflection on culture and the self, making her collection essential for those drawn to innovative and evocative literary art.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"palace-of-culture-by-ania-walwicz-9781922186508","title":"Palace of Culture","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePalace of Culture\u003c\/em\u003e is a dream diary, leading the reader into a personal and surreal engagement with the bewildering complexity of contemporary popular culture. Like her previous work \u003cem\u003eRed Roses\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePalace\u003c\/em\u003e is a freewheeling work drawing the reader in to participate in its very construction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe layering of the oneiric on top of popular culture results in an intriguing interweaving of symbolic meanings—the notation and enactment of inner-states of feeling and being—with the arbitrary marketing decisions of our broader cultural stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe language of \u003cem\u003ePalace of Culture\u003c\/em\u003e is not only the subject's medium, but a source of revelation itself, a phantasm. It is something that is dreamt by its author and its reader, in the palace, at four a.m.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Ania Walwicz's work has always moved across genres, modes and registers, bringing self-reflexivity and metapoetics as material presences into the scene of the production, staging the subject in process, the subject in progress...Inspired by the great fabulists like Kafka and Dostoevsky [she] reactivates the avant-garde traditions from Stein, Joyce, Schwitters through the multiple lenses of psychoanalysis.\" – Marion Campbell (from the Poet)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis leads me. I write dreams. The language of dreams. Configured.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFreud tells me. The interpretation of Dreams. \u003cem\u003eDie Traumbuche\u003c\/em\u003e. The interweaving of symbolic meaning. Self-analysis. This is my true diary. The unveiled, revealed autobiography. The undressing of the psychological process. \u003cem\u003eThe Bride Stripped Bare\u003c\/em\u003e. Notation and enactment of inner states of feeling\/being.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLanguage as revelation, a phantasm. You dream this. The palace at four a.m.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597483196652,"sku":"9781922186508","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/5a953837a5ab5fd0a932da8d03e71a44.jpg?v=1777958687"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/ania-walwicz.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}