Sublime

possibly the most extreme example in modern fiction of how beautifully and lovingly someone can write 70,000 words of vicious nonsense.

‘The most popular plays of yesterday are on the level of the worst novels of yesterday. The best plays of today are on the level of magazine stories and fat bestsellers.’ And the reasons for this are obvious too – the fatigue and artificiality of dramatic conventions, together with the insidious reliance on market forces (and just look at those

Its first twenty chapters are squalid, savage, and attritional – rather well suited, in fact, to modern tastes.

extreme, exclusive, almost a one-man genre.

The professionalization of ordinary existence: this is the enemy within.

squalid, savage, and attritional – rather well suited, in fact, to modern tastes.