In the Absence of Absalon
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Nicholas Lezard’s Choice This is literature as insanity, the mind stuck in an endless loop – focused, it would appear, too closely on the job at hand. The detective story as existential crisis took form with Beckett’s Molloy more than 60 years ago; and the concept of the novel as crazed digression was first incarnated in Tristram Shandy, over 250 years ago. Okotie is in very good company – and has also set himself a high bar. He succeeds. Superbly.
» Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian
Okotie has here further refined not only his comic creation, but also his unique narrative style - the hyper-punctilious - to mesmeric, Zenoesque effect -- David Rose Les mer
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Okotie has here further refined not only his comic creation, but also his unique narrative style - the hyper-punctilious - to mesmeric, Zenoesque effect -- David Rose
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Salt Publishing
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781784631024
- Utgivelsesår
- 2017
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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Nicholas Lezard’s Choice This is literature as insanity, the mind stuck in an endless loop – focused, it would appear, too closely on the job at hand. The detective story as existential crisis took form with Beckett’s Molloy more than 60 years ago; and the concept of the novel as crazed digression was first incarnated in Tristram Shandy, over 250 years ago. Okotie is in very good company – and has also set himself a high bar. He succeeds. Superbly.
» Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian
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Okotie’s labyrinthine syntax and meandering thought loops bring to mind the works of David Foster Wallace and Nicholson Baker; but the clearest nod is to Samuel Beckett’s Watt. Delightfully eccentric … brilliantly funny.
» Houman Barekat, The Spectator
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