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Mostly written in the singular second person, this short novel tracks the slow descent into torpor and indifference that you could find associated with depression, loneliness, social isolation and societal withdrawal. The detailed and excessive descriptions evoke partly the narrative tooling present in the Nouveau Roman, partly the spleen and decadence portrayed by Des Esseintes in Huysmans' Against the Grain. While this is quite a fluid read despite the bleak atmosphere, I'm not sure that Pe ...more
Mostly written in the singular second person, this short novel tracks the slow descent into torpor and indifference that you could find associated with depression, loneliness, social isolation and societal withdrawal. The detailed and excessive descriptions evoke partly the narrative tooling present in the Nouveau Roman, partly the spleen and decadence portrayed by Des Esseintes in Huysmans' Against the Grain. While this is quite a fluid read despite the bleak atmosphere, I'm not sure that Pe ...more
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May 29, 2017
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