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Gisele Prassinos
Jul. 14th, 2025 01:23 pmWakefield's edition of her early story collection, The Arthritic Grasshopper, is excellent even by their standards, with cool original art and a great introduction about Prassinos in relation to the sexist surrealist milieu by Bo Ruberg of all people.
the thing that strikes me with her earliest stories, which she started at 14, is how imagistic they are. People reading often comment on how full of non-sequiturs and narratives that don't make sense, but that's because they're not narrative. It's like Prassinos is writing ekphrasis of non-existent Varo pieces and viewed in that light I think her writing isn't all that difficult to parse, which certainly doesn't mean it's not really interesting.
the thing that strikes me with her earliest stories, which she started at 14, is how imagistic they are. People reading often comment on how full of non-sequiturs and narratives that don't make sense, but that's because they're not narrative. It's like Prassinos is writing ekphrasis of non-existent Varo pieces and viewed in that light I think her writing isn't all that difficult to parse, which certainly doesn't mean it's not really interesting.
