
“Microwave dinners were reliably bland, but their colorful, happy packaging represented real progress compared with the heavy tribulations of Huysmeans’s heroes. There was no malice in them, and one’s sense of participating in a collective experience, disappointing but egalitarian, smoothed the way to partial acceptance.” Michel Houellebecq
Song of Heroic Death
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This is one of my favourites so far. It has an incantatory, apocalyptic feel reminiscent of Ezra Pound, and yet a certain playful rhythm evocative of troubador songs. Wonderful progression and development. Utterly unique.