Björn recenserade Travesti av Mircea Cărtărescu
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3 stjärnor
Fucked up Lovecraft/Burroughsian description of a repressed outsider teenager forced to go on a class trip in Ceaucescu's 1973, and hating every second of having to live with his horny, drinking classmates so much he escapes into nightmares... The imagery just as vivid and putrescent as in Orbitor, sometimes absolutely stunning and there are promising themes in there, it's often too concentrated and too self-obsessed to make it worth digging for them in the general nastiness. It's an unpleasant novel; I'm not sure that makes it a bad novel, but it also doesn't automatically make it a good one.
Fucked up Lovecraft/Burroughsian description of a repressed outsider teenager forced to go on a class trip in Ceaucescu's 1973, and hating every second of having to live with his horny, drinking classmates so much he escapes into nightmares... The imagery just as vivid and putrescent as in Orbitor, sometimes absolutely stunning and there are promising themes in there, it's often too concentrated and too self-obsessed to make it worth digging for them in the general nastiness. It's an unpleasant novel; I'm not sure that makes it a bad novel, but it also doesn't automatically make it a good one.