Dead souls sam riviere5/8/2023 This showed that his work was largely plagiarised from the work of other poets. The poet has been ‘grey listed’ after getting a high score (not a good thing) on the newly developed QACS (Quantitative Analysis and Comparison System). He, our narrator, is being spoken to by the head of a small publishing company about a poet who was fallen out of favour, Solomon Weise. Here is an outline of the narrative structure: A young male person is attending the biennial Festival of Culture at the Royal Festival Hall in London. But here we have a book by a poet, meant to be a take-down of the modern literary world, and it comes across as deeply annoying. True there is Thomas Bernhard where the quality of the vituperation and self-mockery is totally convincing, and Roberto Bolano who uses many different poetic voices. 301-page books comprising a single paragraph do not always make for gripping reading.
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