Basti

I suspect I will get more out of this after a second reading, but the narrative style made it a very difficult read for me. I kept feeling like I do when I try to read Ulysses...just kind of lost, and not in a good way (lost in a good way would be something like Dhalgren). I'll pick it up again someday and try once more, but most of it was lost on me I think.

The stuff that did resonate had to do with the build-up to large-scale conflict, that feeling of being unmoored, which Husain (and his translators) capture beautifully. The shift that you can feel happening, but can't do much about, even though you have to do something about it...it reminded me of the best parts of Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins.