Allen Ansgar - The Sick List - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: The Sick List operates on the far side of literature. John Schad In this novel an unnamed academic in an unnamed contemporary university relates his obsession with his tutor Gordon. He pores over the increasingly bizarre mis - readings in Gordon's annotations in a strange selection of stolen library books. Is Gordon unraveling a mystery? Or is his own mind unraveling? Meanwhile an epidemic of catatonia breaks out; academics are found slumped and unconscious at their desks. Is reading itself the cause of this sickness? Is the only escape to return to illiteracy? Witty moving and beautifully written The Sick List plays with the dividing line between deploring and exemplifying what it most despises. Inspired by the work of the Austrian novelist Thomas Bernhard it considers how the minds of educated people are moulded by both the breadth of literary culture and the narrowness of academic institutions. The Sick List is about menace about a menace (Gordon) and is written in the voice of a menace. It reads like one of the pen - portraits of surreal ultra - violence in Bernhard's Gargoyles where education turns out to be the most deceitful panacea of all. Katharine Craik
Title: The Sick List
Author(s): Allen Ansgar
Publisher: Uea Publishing Project
Barcode: 9781911343769
Pages: 186 Pages
Publication Date: 6/30/2021
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction