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The
Abyss of Human Illusion
Reviews
The Believer:
“Quite
funny, masterfully spinning through rhetoric high
and low . . . [Sorrentino] opens himself anew, four
decades into the vocation, to the passions engaged
by an art made of words. Sorrentino's final work remains
prickly about those passions, to be sure, but it nonetheless
reveals a respect for how the best prose can embody
what we call insight .”
Sam Lipsyte:
“It's still hard to accept a world without the great
Gilbert Sorrentino writing in it. Over the last several
decades, nobody that smart was ever funnier, nobody
that funny was ever a better prose artist, nobody that
original was ever more attuned to the pain and trickiness
of being—and thinking about being—human. That his final
book evinces all the complexity, poetry and dark mirth
that made him so revered might not surprise, but it
does inspire.”
Ben Marcus:
“Gilbert
Sorrentino was not just a ferociously brilliant writer,
he was several of them, shedding his skin with each
book, mastering and forging enough new literary vernacular
to enrich the language for a long time to come.”
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