In _Exiled from Almost Everywhere_, Juan Goytisolo's perverse mutant
protagonist—the Parisian "Monster of Le Sentier"—is blown up by an
extremist bomber and finds himself in the cyberspace of the Thereafter
with an infinite collection of computer monitors. His curiosity
piqued, he uses the screens at hand to explore the multiple ways war
and terrorism are hyped in the Hereafter of his old life where he once
happily cruised bathrooms and accosted children. Ricocheting from life
to death and back again, meeting various colorful demagogues along the
way—the imam "Alice," a pedophile Monsignor, and a Rastafarian
rabbi—our "Monster" revisits seedy democracies that are a welter of
shopping-cities and righteous violence voted in by an eternally duped
citizenry and defended by the infamous erogenous bomb. At once
fantastical and cruelly real, _Exiled from Almost Everywhere_ hurtles
the reader through our troubled times in a Swiftian series of grisly
cartoon screenshots.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781564786517
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
Dalkey Archive Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter