Broken Accidents
Phlip Arima, "Broken Accidents"
Publisher: Insomniac Press | 2000-09-01 | ISBN 189466339X | PDF | 160 pages | 3.0 MB
Publisher: Insomniac Press | 2000-09-01 | ISBN 189466339X | PDF | 160 pages | 3.0 MB
Philp Arima's third book, is a hip, slick, very quick collection of monologues, dialogues, first- and-third person fictions that move from Ha Ha to Kafkaesque and employs a variety of styles that poke at our urban realities.
A crowd of dead people tries to hitchhike in the rain. A husband and wife awake to find that he has transformed into a pickle and she into a mango. A member of a rock star's entourage has recently been promoted to become keeper of the sunglasses. A man living in an elevator opens his mouth to release a swarm of flies. In 'Broken Accidents', Phlip Arima presents fictions in which the mundane and the surreal collide, and humour and sadness paint opposite sides of a revolving door. Filled with absurd conversations, monologues and sardonic descriptions of warped realities, 'Broken Accidents' twists and squirms with incisive metaphor yet maintains a child-like wonder and curiosity. As short as they are poignant, Arima's fictions are off-centre reflections on the pressing frustrations of modern culture and the existential drive for human connection.