Monday, October 14, 2024

the afflictions by vikram paralkar

 this book clearly wants to be compared to Borges and Calvino, but my experience reading it was more like The Cabinet by Un-Su Kim, or kind of like watching a season of mushi-shi. Although the biggest departure from those kinds of media is the academic-Catholic themes. Which just made me want to reread The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. 

The Afflictions is very short, but not too short. It contains a thesis about three-quarters of the way through. 

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