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Mark's Contemporary Literature BlogThe Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
In the first paragraph of Jonathan Barnes' The Somnambulist the omniscient narrator suggests that nothing is as it seems, that perhaps this is a phantasmagoric imagination, a conceit of illusion, "a book with no literary merit whatsoever. It is a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, people by unconvincing characters, written in drearily pedestrian prose, frequently ridiculous and willfully bizarre." The narrator is exactly right. Monday April 21, 2008 | comments (0) Display Latest Headlines | powered by WordPress |
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