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Postmodern Metaphysical Novel Brings Together Fin de Siècle Figures

By Thomas Bell

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | October 7, 2004

The characters in this novel come to Africa during a time of colonial retreat to impose their own philosophies on the African jungle's "darkness" (an idea author Norman Lock mercilessly slices and dices with his deconstructive Ginsu).

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Tags: A History of the Imagination, Norman Lock, Fiction Reviews

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