Published by Hogarth Press, 2017, 256 pages. Dunbar, a retelling of King Lear, is part of the Hogarth Shakespeare series.[1] Edward St Aubyn sets the story in the present with the King Lear character as a media mogul, Dunbar (shades of Rupert Murdoch?). Dunbar is in an old people’s home, where he has been put …
Month: February 2021
The Capital: Robert Menasse
Translated from German by Jamie BullochPublished by MacLehose Press, 2019, 411 pages. Original version published in 2017. The European Commission seems an unlikely setting for a novel. But by foregrounding the people who work for the EC, with their individual quirks, worries and talents, Robert Menasse brings the institution to life. Fenia Xenopolou (aka Xeno), …
The Testaments: Margaret Atwood
Published by Chatto & Windus, 2019, 432 pages. “All things come to she who waits. Time wounds all heels. Patience is a virtue. Vengeance is mine.” Margaret Atwood says that the question she was asked most often about The Handmaid’s Tale was what happened next? How did Gilead fall? The Testaments, written 35 years after …
Dissipatio H.G.—The Vanishing: Guido Morselli
Translated from Italian by Frederika RandallPublished by The New York Review of Books, Inc., 2020, 168 pages. Original version published in 2012. What would happen to the planet if the entire human race was to disappear? In this novella, Guido Morselli imagines a world empty of people. The book is narrated by the one man …
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