Henry’s Chapel
Henry’s Chapel by Graham Guest, published by Sagging Meniscus Press in February 2022, is a novel that presents a unique narrative structure. The story unfolds through the perspective of a narrator who provides a detailed account and analysis of Albarb Noella’s film, Lawnmower of a Jealous God. Set against the backdrop of rural East Texas, the narrative explores the complexities of an isolated family, delving into themes of incest, abuse, mental illness, and liberation.
Readers will find a blend of meta-narrative and traditional storytelling as the film’s characters and its director intertwine with the narrator’s insights. This interplay creates a layered exploration of the film as both an immersive experience and a subject of critical examination. The novel’s approach to narratology offers a distinctive perspective on storytelling, inviting readers to engage with the intricate connections between the narrative and its analysis. With 238 pages, this edition is presented in English, providing a thought-provoking experience for those interested in fiction that challenges conventional boundaries.
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In Graham Guest’s novel Henry’s Chapel we watch a film by proxy, through the eyes of a narrator who offers a play-by-play account, complete with probing analysis, of Albarb Noella’s Lawnmower of a Jealous God. Within this unusual frame we encounter the story of an isolated family in rural East Texas, a tragicomic tale of incest, abuse, mental illness and liberation. As meta-narrative and narrative merge into one another, the film’s characters, its director, and implicitly the narrator and author themselves all become significant figures, while the film itself becomes both an immersive if ghostly medium and a distanced object of critical inquiry, its meaning and being inseparable from the metafictional organism that contains it. The final product is a kind of narratological incest heretofore unexplored.
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