Then there’s the Reverend, Everly Thomas, who’s searching for the reason for his damnation. The fate of Willie hangs in balance as the Bardo is not the correct place to be, especially for a dead child as young as him. The story thus proceeds in a dialogue form, though it’s presented in a slightly different manner, where the character names appear below their “dialogues.” They’re chattering on while just waiting for a young fellow who’s to soon join their ranks at the Bardo. Listening in is his ghostly friend Bevins III, along with providing his inputs. Vollman narrates in the first person the sad story of his death just when he was about to start with the second innings of his life. Trigger Warning: Black Oppression, Torture, Sexual Assault Synopsis: Genre: Experimental Literature, Historical Fiction, Magical Realism
Either you will love it or you won’t understand this “story about the afterlife.“ It is a story of young Willie Lincoln’s journey from life to the afterlife and beyond, seen through to the end from the point of view of Hans Vollman and Roger Bevins. I essentially gave up, because I couldn't stand it any longer.Lincoln in the Bardo is a one-of-a-kind book, neither has this narration technique been used before, nor do I think it will be used again. I got so fed up with it, that I skimmed it here and there, and then skipped to the end, and then that was it.
It seemed to be going nowhere for interminably long periods, where I felt like I was stuck in the Bardo with them, and couldn't wait to get out. When I read a book I want a story that gets me interested, that leads somewhere and I want to know what happens next, this was the opposite. And they would go on and on about very silly things that I didn't care about. He wrote the characters and what they said in such a way, that it was hard for me to like them or identify with any of them. They would know they were coffins and in seeing their bodies decay, if they were not totally stupid in real life, they would know that they were dead. They seemed to say such stupid things, and if they lived life on earth, which they did, then they would definitely know that their decaying bodies were not in "sick boxes." They would be able to identify the boxes as coffins. The format was very difficult, for one thing, but also, I couldn't find myself caring about any of the characters, or what they had to say. The format was very difficult, for one thing, but also, I couldn't find myself caring about any of the characters, or what they had …more I hated this book.
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