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The Doll’s Alphabet
While reading this extraordinary set of short stories by Camilla Grudova, I was reminded of Eraserhead, David Lynch’s first feature length film. The same gritty, dark, relentlessness runs throughout Grudova’s set of stories as it does so beautifully in Eraserhead. The Doll’s Alphabet also brought to my thinking the fabulous and twisted paintings on glass by Katie Timoshenko, and the art work of Bunny Mazhari. From time to time during my reading of the book, Jane Bowles’ work came to mind as well. I see similarities between the two writers in that both strike a certain naïve sounding tone which adds an extra layer of queerness to the atmosphere of their stories, and both are comfortable with the absurd, perhaps Grudova more so, as certainly in the story, Edward, Do Not Pamper the Dead, I found the kind of glorious disregard of anything attempting to resemble ‘reality’ as we live it, gone. Although what Grudova writes is fantasy, its uniqueness and resounding originality means that it would not fit easily into the genre called fantasy which has its own well-ploughed landscape of clichés. My favourite of the thirteen stories is Waxy which has a particular dream-like quality to it. Should there be readers out there, and I hope there are, who are looking for the extraordinary, you’ll find it in The Doll’s Alphabet.


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The Doll Alphabet Camilla Grudova 9781910695371 Books Reviews

The Doll’s Alphabet
While reading this extraordinary set of short stories by Camilla Grudova, I was reminded of Eraserhead, David Lynch’s first feature length film. The same gritty, dark, relentlessness runs throughout Grudova’s set of stories as it does so beautifully in Eraserhead. The Doll’s Alphabet also brought to my thinking the fabulous and twisted paintings on glass by Katie Timoshenko, and the art work of Bunny Mazhari. From time to time during my reading of the book, Jane Bowles’ work came to mind as well. I see similarities between the two writers in that both strike a certain naïve sounding tone which adds an extra layer of queerness to the atmosphere of their stories, and both are comfortable with the absurd, perhaps Grudova more so, as certainly in the story, Edward, Do Not Pamper the Dead, I found the kind of glorious disregard of anything attempting to resemble ‘reality’ as we live it, gone. Although what Grudova writes is fantasy, its uniqueness and resounding originality means that it would not fit easily into the genre called fantasy which has its own well-ploughed landscape of clichés. My favourite of the thirteen stories is Waxy which has a particular dream-like quality to it. Should there be readers out there, and I hope there are, who are looking for the extraordinary, you’ll find it in The Doll’s Alphabet.