The Imago Stage, Karoline Georges
The Imago Stage, Karoline Georges
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The Imago Stage

Author: Karoline Georges

Narrator: Adrienne Wilson

Unabridged: 5 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 11/15/2020


Synopsis

A woman must emerge from the virtual world she’s created to confront her flesh-and-blood past and family. Growing up with a menacing drunk for a father and a grief-stricken mother, a girl spends her 1980s childhood staring at the television to escape the tension, depression, and looming violence that fill her suburban home. After winning a modelling competition, she dedicates herself to becoming a placid image onto which anything can be projected, a blank slate with a blank stare. Earning enough in Paris to retire in her twenties, she buys a studio in Montreal and retreats from the world and its perceived threats, cultivating her existence as an image through her virtual reality avatar. But when her mother develops cancer and nears the end of her life, she is forced to leave her cocoon — surrounded by her posse of augmented reality superheroes — and interact with the world and her parents without the mask of her perfect, virtual self. Georges offers up an alienated childhood with shifting pop culture obsessions, a woman’s awakening to the role of the image in culture, and her eventual isolation in her apartment and the world online. It is a catalogue of the anxieties of an age, from nuclear war to terrorism, climate change to biological warfare. Set in the past and not-too-distant future of Montreal, The Imago Stage is an ominous tale of oppression, suppression, and disembodiment.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bibliomaniaque on September 14, 2019

Un roman intéressant où l’obsession pour l’image, voire la quête d’absolu dans celle-ci, prend toute la place. Un reflet étrangement horrifiant de notre société dans laquelle la réalité nous glisse entre les doigts au profit de la réalité virtuelle.......more

Goodreads review by Marie-Pier on March 05, 2019

Lecture qui m'a touchée plus profondément que je ne m'y attendait. Un bel ode à la femme, à la lignée, la filiation.......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on August 23, 2019

Un voyage entre le corps et l’image, et tous les tiraillements que ça comporte. D’une beauté tant fibreuse que plastique, un grand texte. L’intelligence de la plume de Karoline Georges est à souligner. On y comprend et apprécie les influences issues de sa démarche multidisciplinaire.......more

Goodreads review by Léonie on March 12, 2019

D’une beauté intemporelle, De synthèse sait manier les sauts dans le temps et dans l’espace avec une finesse intelligente. En exposant la dichotomie entre image et humanité, Karoline Georges nous amène à nous questionner sur notre monde où la photographie nous définit de plus en plus. Un roman d’une......more