Joseph Cummins reviews Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria by Brian Castro
Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria
by Brian Castro
224pp, $26.95
ISBN 978-1-925336-22-1
Reviewed by JOSEPH CUMMINS
Brian Castro’s eleventh work of fiction is a profoundly playful novel about life, death and authorship. Faced with a terminal diagnosis, Lucien Gracq contemplates the meaning and meaninglessness of life as a town planner. Given fifty-three days to live – this is an allusion to Georges Perec’s novel 53 Days, which he left incomplete at his death – Gracq decides to focus on finishing his epic poem, Paidia.
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