An adventure into the psyche of an ultracontemporary twentysomething artist who is lost in an underworld of drugs and mental terrorism.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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postmodern masterpiece still resonates,
By aaron (san diego) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Kafka Chronicles (Black Ice Books) (Paperback)
I read this novel when it first came out in 1993 and finally made my way back to it ten years later. What an incredible book - very prohpetic, especially the wildly satirical "Amerika At War: The Mini-Series" chapter that takes up the bulk of the middle of this book. It's like Jonathan Swift meets Joseph Heller meets Philip Roth meets Celine (who Amerika is actually compared to on the back cover). There are very few young American writers who are do deft at lampooning the far right politicians, but Amerika succeeds at this like no other (you get this eerie feeling reading about the Persian Gulf War of 1991 and seeing how the author's hyberbole has become The Real Thing with Bush 43 in 2003). Amerika has stopped writing novels and is now an internationally famous video and digital artist, but his early breakthrough work like The Kafka Chronicles positions him as both the James Joyce and William Burroughs of his generation.
4 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Very Confusing,
By Ann M Eadie (Jacksonville, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Kafka Chronicles (Black Ice Books) (Paperback)
I did not like this book at all. I guess this is suppose to be "experimental" but it just seems like Mr. Amerika (must be a nom de plume) is just goofing off and doesn't really know how to write readable fiction. Unreadable, I'm afraid, so skip it.
3 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Undigestable,
By Valerie Grey (NY NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Kafka Chronicles (Black Ice Books) (Paperback)
I couldn't get past the first 10 pages, this was so badly written. I tossed it at the all and killed a roach in the process. The roach was not George Samsa. It was a roach. Hope I still get a good price when I take this to the used bookstore. Sorry. This book left a bad taste.
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