Hard Cover Book Lions Chew the Grass
I began writing my novel with the final scene, dedicated to the end of all wars in the world. However, as I neared the completion of the composition, an actual war began. After completing my MA years ago, I moved from Russia to Ukraine. In the spring of 2022, I responded as a medical volunteer. This experience forced me to finish the book by 2023.
I recall the day I started writing and the day I finished the text. It felt like a 19-years-long day. I was inspired by Nietzsche and James Joyce’s technique of concealing meanings within the text, crafting my topological ‘ornaments with gaps’. This way the biblical tittle ‘Lions Chew the Grass‘ can be read as dzogchen ‘Lovers Chod the Grace‘. I drew inspiration from Lacanian psychoanalysis, I quoted authors from Sei Shonagon to Otto Kernberg, and music, Gavin Bryars, or Kitka women vocal choir. Even when references remain invisible, I concealed them within the composition or phoenetics. I have also recieved critics over the plot, that remains too blurry. Perharps an attentive enough reader could still find it. I can assure that my untiutopian plot is solid, but I did not see a better way to convey it.
Text allows us to deconstruct, process, and create our experience. In my case, together with years of therapy, text replaced a fake-ego, becoming ‘a spine of my catastrophism’. We are trapped in mental prisons. Unravelling that, we allow us to percept a reality, free from our transferences and illusions of wishes, with our bodies or as a results of our actions.
Polina Medvedeva, June 2023
I began writing my novel with the final scene, dedicated to the end of all wars in the world. However, as I neared the completion of the composition, an actual war began. After completing my MA years ago, I moved from Russia to Ukraine. In the spring of 2022, I responded as a medical volunteer. This experience forced me to finish the book by 2023.
I recall the day I started writing and the day I finished the text. It felt like a 19-years-long day. I was inspired by Nietzsche and James Joyce’s technique of concealing meanings within the text, crafting my topological ‘ornaments with gaps’. This way the biblical tittle ‘Lions Chew the Grass‘ can be read as dzogchen ‘Lovers Chod the Grace‘. I drew inspiration from Lacanian psychoanalysis, I quoted authors from Sei Shonagon to Otto Kernberg, and music, Gavin Bryars, or Kitka women vocal choir. Even when references remain invisible, I concealed them within the composition or phoenetics. I have also recieved critics over the plot, that remains too blurry. Perharps an attentive enough reader could still find it. I can assure that my untiutopian plot is solid, but I did not see a better way to convey it.
Text allows us to deconstruct, process, and create our experience. In my case, together with years of therapy, text replaced a fake-ego, becoming ‘a spine of my catastrophism’. We are trapped in mental prisons. Unravelling that, we allow us to percept a reality, free from our transferences and illusions of wishes, with our bodies or as a results of our actions.
Polina Medvedeva, June 2023
I began writing my novel with the final scene, dedicated to the end of all wars in the world. However, as I neared the completion of the composition, an actual war began. After completing my MA years ago, I moved from Russia to Ukraine. In the spring of 2022, I responded as a medical volunteer. This experience forced me to finish the book by 2023.
I recall the day I started writing and the day I finished the text. It felt like a 19-years-long day. I was inspired by Nietzsche and James Joyce’s technique of concealing meanings within the text, crafting my topological ‘ornaments with gaps’. This way the biblical tittle ‘Lions Chew the Grass‘ can be read as dzogchen ‘Lovers Chod the Grace‘. I drew inspiration from Lacanian psychoanalysis, I quoted authors from Sei Shonagon to Otto Kernberg, and music, Gavin Bryars, or Kitka women vocal choir. Even when references remain invisible, I concealed them within the composition or phoenetics. I have also recieved critics over the plot, that remains too blurry. Perharps an attentive enough reader could still find it. I can assure that my untiutopian plot is solid, but I did not see a better way to convey it.
Text allows us to deconstruct, process, and create our experience. In my case, together with years of therapy, text replaced a fake-ego, becoming ‘a spine of my catastrophism’. We are trapped in mental prisons. Unravelling that, we allow us to percept a reality, free from our transferences and illusions of wishes, with our bodies or as a results of our actions.
Polina Medvedeva, June 2023