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A MADMAN CANNOT SURVIVE HIS OWN MASTERPIECE An excerpt from ATTILA by Javier Serena, recommended by Katie Whittemore
Attila by Aliocha Coll has gone back into print today and for the first time it’s been translated into English. I enjoy difficult thought provoking literature but so far this novel is about as comprehensible and coherent as Finnegans Wake. credit to the translator because translating this labyrinth into English couldn’t have been an easy task. Also apologies, the excerpt is from a different book also named Attila that also released today written by the author’s friend that is basically a memoir about his friend’s slow descent into madness and depression writing his final novel before his suicide. The publisher
