· The Medusa Frequency (Novel, ) A frustrated author hides away in his outpost in Fulham, working nights and trying to forget his lost love, looking for inspiration. Instead his computer puts him in touch with the Kraken, a fantastic squidlike mind in mid-existentialist crisis. A few wires-in-the-brain later, he becomes dogged by the severed head of Orpheus, which repeatedly insists on telling the . Why is Russell Hoban not better known as a remarkable adult experimental novelist, and cultural thinker? In The Medusa Frequency, the protagonist receives messages on his Apple computer from the Kraken, who, naturally for a creature of Scandinavian myth (a sea monster, as alluded to in John Wyndham's sci-fi classic "The Kraken Wakes"), begins to tell a mythic story about a cryptic "hero"/5(14). Official Russell Hoban site About Kleinzeit — About Riddley Walker — About The Medusa Frequency These concordances are provided by The Spoonbill Generator.
—The Head of Orpheus in Russell Hoban's The Medusa Frequency. Make sure to visit the Official Russell Hoban website for all the latest news! The Head of Orpheus with his lyre: detail from Odilon Redon's Orpheus (pastel) Images on this page animated by the mighty Olaf Schneider. Last Updated: J. THE MEDUSA FREQUENCY. Spinning off from the Orpheus myth, Hoban (Pilgermann, ; Riddley Walker, ; Turtle Diary, ) offers a weird modern fable of a London writer's struggles with the quest for inspiration and for a constant, faithful, Eurydice. style love. The narrator is twice-published yet virtually unread novelist Hermann Orff, now. In the fall of , Awl founded a Hoban-themed online community called The Kraken (named after one of the characters in Hoban's novel The Medusa Frequency), which grew into an international network of Russell Hoban fans.
The Medusa Frequency is so multilayered it is difficult to know where to begin. Its protagonist and narrator Herman Orff has some vague notion that it might serve as a kind of vade mecum, a handbook for overcoming creative block. At the same time, it may be a prescription for dealing with lost love. The Medusa Frequency by Russell Hoban is published by Penguin Modern Classics (£). To order a copy go to www.doorway.ru Delivery charges may apply. "Russell Hoban's The Medusa Frequency is the sort of hyper-kinetic feat of the imagination that runs on high octane fuel and thunders across its surreal landscape at a dangerously high speed in the course of this tour through the imaginative outback of Mr. Hoban's mind, we are treated to brilliant flashes of mordant humour, not to mention splendidly baroque evocations of present day London.".
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