Word: towers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gray's Inn Road in London, just north of Fleet Street, the modern office buildings that once housed the Times and the Sunday Times are nearly abandoned, their lobbies dark and locked. One mile away, in a seedy dock area called Wapping, deep in the shadow of the Tower of London, stands the imposing, boxlike building that is the new home of the two papers, as well as of the tabloids the Sun and the News of the World. Ringing the Wapping compound are surveillance cameras, fences 8 ft. high and thick coils of concertina wire studded with razor blades...
...with and laugh at his own words, their oppressiveness would send even the most patient reader scrambling for freedom and sanity. Laughter is, in fact, the reader's only means of warding off the cold, crushing force of the five interwoven tales of Angelo's recently translated book, The Tower of Glass...
...more conventional mode as it fairly faithfully follows the thoughts and desperation of a prostitute. The words settle into calmer sequences and the characters hold onto their initial identities. This narrative that has finally found its own internal logic grows stronger in the fourth and last tales, "The Tower of Glass" and "Lost and Found." The text reasserts its power, but uses the power to defy and oppress the reader rather than to transmit the author's ideas...
...Tower of Glass, he has translated his country into a verbal form and let the words act as he sees his government acting--crushing, tossing aside, using its people...
Perhaps in its original Spanish The Tower of Glass flows more beautifully. The book is an intellectual excercise, a challenge, not an escape into a verbal paradise. In this profoundly, horribly real work Angelo uses all his art to capture a life as convoluted and shifting, helpless and oppressive as his own prose: this intellectual challenge is not an ivory tower but The Tower of Glass...