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Days Between Stations

by Steve Erickson

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Steve Erickson is like the Pink Floyd of modern novelists, and Days Between Stations is his Dark Side of the Moon.

Erickson's debut from 1985 is one of the most gnostic of more contemporary novels I've encountered. I tried for about a month to explain it all in a real review, draft after crumpled draft, and finally cut my losses with the opening one-liner above. I've never been able to adequately encapsulate any of the four novels of Steve Erickson's I've read -- the three others so far being Tours of the Black Clock, The Sea Came in at Midnight, and Our Ecstatic Days -- but maybe that's a good thing, testament to the preternatural imagination and mysticism of Erickson's that permeates the spare pages of his mesmerizing novel's universe where "the clocks have all stopped" and mysterious rooms are self-lit without any known sources of electricity or natural light: these "stations" of the novel's title that serve only a select few hyper-attuned inhabitants of Paris and Los Angeles living simultaneously in the present and past; characters who may or may not be incarnations of characters who've lived before, people who "live in the window," as Erickson more eloquently describes it, and who have rediscovered a certain enigmatic and believed-to-be-unfinished film from the silent movie era, Adolphe Sarre's La Mort de Marat, possessing such unimaginable power that its very reel may serve as a metaphysical conduit -- a station itself -- between the ephemeral and eternal. A person in possession of such a movie just might become immortal themselves! Or maybe dead.

Check out the website for Days Between Stations, the "art rock" band, inspired by Steve Erickson's novel. ( )
14 vote EnriqueFreeque | Feb 13, 2012 |
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Plagued by amnesia, Michel Sarasan has an affair with a married woman, then goes to Paris to try to jog his memory. PW commented: "A plot rampant with ambiguities and bizarre harbingers of doomsday in a futuristic world and the author's surrealistic style make this first novel impenetrable."
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  gnewfry | Jun 9, 2007 |
An incredible book. Dreamlike and strange. ( )
2 vote Korvac | Apr 11, 2007 |
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The traveler asks himself:  if he lived out a lifetime, pushing the distance away, does he come back to the place where his grieving began:  squander his dose of identity again, say his goodbyes again, and go? - Pablo Neruda
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When Lauren was a small girl, she would stand in the Kansan fields and call the cats.
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In a world of cataclysm and unraveled time, a young woman's face, a misbegotten childhood in a Parisian brothel, and the fragment of a lost movie masterpiece are the only clues in a man's search for his past. Steve Erickson's Days Between Stations is the stunning, now classic dream-spec of our precarious age -- by turns beautiful and obsessed, haunted and hallucinated, in which lives erotically collide, the past ambushes the future, and forbidden secrets intercut with each other like the frames of a film.

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