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arc provided by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.ottessa moshfegh is undeniably talented in writing the grotesque, and lapvona further proves so.foregoing her usual contemporary setting, this book manages to highlight moshfegh's skill in worldbuilding. the town of lapvona feels like a breathing character itself, with traits that drastically affect the lives of the other characters. essentially moshfegh's pandemic novel, the medieval setting with its drought, starvation, and rampant cor...
the way y’all are acting about no way home is how i’m gonna act when this comes out but so much worse
bleak godless manipulative mindfuck! 🙏🏽
every time i read the title of this book, my brain reads "la putona".
Lapvona is a riveting, haunting, primal novel that follows the residents and leaders of a medieval eastern european village as they deal with tragedy and natural disasters. it is very much a pandemic novel; though contagious illness is not a plot point, the story documents collective human despair in the face of an uncontrollable destructive force. Moshfegh does an excellent job tying all the subplots together. every character is somehow connected to the others. at times, the Lapvonians’ stories...
u crazy for this one ottessa
how am i supposed to focus when there's an ottessa moshfegh book i haven't read yet
while Lapvona is the biggest departure from Ottessa Moshfegh previous novels, it still strangely feels the most ‘moshfeghian’. maybe this is because she started working on it before any of her other books, or because it contains many of the themes she has touched on previously, albeit explored in much greater depth. the fictional medieval fiefdom of Lapvona is used as a vehicle for moshfegh to peel back the flesh and examine the bare bones of humanity, with all of its guilt, greed, and corruptio...
Hmm... I'm really not sure what to make of this book. I understand Moshfegh was writing this during lockdown so in some senses it's a Covid novel - but only in an oblique, weird way which, surely, is what we'd expect from Moshfegh. We can sense it, I think, in this being a retreat from a 'normal' realist world, as it has the feel of a fable or fairy tale: the vague setting and time, the broad brush characters and situations that feel heightened and not really allegorical but figurative more than...
Lapvona is a mediaeval fiefdom ruled over by Lord of the Manor Villiam and via some of the characters such as Jude the lamb herder, Marek his son and Ina a sort of wise woman, we are witness to a hostile, godless, cruel, vile stinking mess of a place. Violence is an every day occurrence so it’s a savage dark raw and brutal tale. In places it’s so graphically gross it’s hard to take and read and I’m certain it’s designed to deliberately be provocative and get a reaction. Strangely despite my revu...
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Lapvona is a unique, haunting and disgusting book that is unlike anything Moshfegh has written before. Set in the medieval village of Lapvona, we follow a whole host of truly deplorable characters as the village is plagued by drought, bandits, famine and religious struggles. I don’t know what I was expecting from this novel before I started, but I was surprised (in a great way). Moshfegh has created such an intense and unforgettable world, populated with absurd and similarly unforgettable charac...
Ottessa moshfegh did it again. I’m too stunned to speak. This was deeply disturbing but so moving.I don’t think i’ll ever read a book this perfect again. Ottessa’s writing abilities are godlike and astonishingly creative. Her mind fascinates me, there’s no other writer like her.
YESSSSS, a new Moshfegh!!!"In Ottessa Moshfegh’s new novel Lapvona, set in the vanished medieval fiefdom of the same name, a motherless son and his bitter shepherd father must navigate dark times in their village, in which the only seeming check on the depravity of the local feudal lord is the witchy power of the village’s blind midwife."
it’s suffocatingly lonely. nature, religion, and wealth are the leading forces in Lapvona. but where are the lines drawn between them if all are corrupted and blurred. the novel starts with the easter slaughter. this opening accepts you into the ways religion and violence go hand in hand throughout the story. we explore the way suffering is a religious experience and how pain can be its own religion.everyone is inter connected. we see the history of the characters through the use of dramatic iro...