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A review by dessa
In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster
3.0
Reread May 2016.
This is a weird book, and nostalgic for me, because it was one of the first things I ever had to read for a university class. It's kind of an odd pick for a first-year English course, but for some reason it really stuck with me - one of the bricks that built into my weird old passion for apocalyptic landscapes. My copy went MIA a couple years ago and it's apparently almost impossible to find - I had to interlibrary loan it. Still a very strange novel, and problematic in ways I didn't see in my first reading, but still oddly intriguing. A magic trick. A grand reveal with nothing behind the curtain. Apocalypse in a nutshell.
This is a weird book, and nostalgic for me, because it was one of the first things I ever had to read for a university class. It's kind of an odd pick for a first-year English course, but for some reason it really stuck with me - one of the bricks that built into my weird old passion for apocalyptic landscapes. My copy went MIA a couple years ago and it's apparently almost impossible to find - I had to interlibrary loan it. Still a very strange novel, and problematic in ways I didn't see in my first reading, but still oddly intriguing. A magic trick. A grand reveal with nothing behind the curtain. Apocalypse in a nutshell.