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Joey Anderson
is 72% done
Melkior, despite his efforts to starve himself so that he would fail the weight requirement, is drafted and what follows is a humorous satire on the military during a serious time when Germany is bombing London. What is best though is the blending of external and internal realities that furthers the allusion of the Cyclops, a one-eyed cannibal who will be defeated by “nobody.”
— Oct 11, 2017 01:10AM
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Joey Anderson
is 52% done
A very male-oriented novel (although European, Americans fit in quite well). Published in 1965, it illustrates the male fear of death in a variety of ways: war, conflict with other males, romance, sex, and especially women. There is a sense that Melkior fears the power that women hold over men.
— Oct 08, 2017 10:02AM
Joey Anderson
is 37% done
Incredibly good. Europe stands poised on the eve of WWII, and Melkior and his associates in the Give and Take (bar) try in vain to live normal lives as the intuit the end of human (istic) history.
— Oct 05, 2017 01:01AM
Joey Anderson
is 11% done
Set in Zagreb, Croatia before WWII, Melkior, the main character, and the inhabitants of the Give and Take bar take part in comic intellectual discussions about literature, especially nihilistic works, to avoid, it seems, the coming horrors of the Third Reich. Hitler is rarely mentioned, but he looms in the background as a Cyclops whose singular vision haunts these characters.
— Sep 30, 2017 10:47PM
