![]() With the release of the newly translated Paradise Rot, we can experience her artistic evolution beyond the shape of a timeline, as a series of challenging examinations melting and bending in on themselves. Maybe more revolutionary than that transfiguration is her disemboweling of desire itself, unraveling it to its fearsome, primal state, and exploring the strangeness of how sexuality can alienate one from oneself how feelings of mistrust come about when desire is new, queer and unreliable. Hval's curiosity is more than simple pleasure in perversity: It's meant to defile the idea of women's bodies as pristine and plush… and reshape it into something more dreadfully real. But most of all, in the way that a microscope reveals an unsettling truth about the familiar (that it’s teeming with life you never expected), Paradise Rot is hard to forget. It is, in many ways, a novel about finding and then choosing a self it also shows the pull of unexpected queer desire and the dismantling of boundaries that draw requires. Paradise Rot is an odd microcosm inside an ordinary world…. ![]() Hval is an expert at creating and sustaining atmospherics across genres, and Paradise Rot is no exception. As intriguing and impressive a novelist as she is a musician, Hval is a master of quiet horror and wonder. ![]() In Paradise Rot, Jenny Hval creates a parallel world that’s familiar but subtly skewed.
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