THE VICIOUS CIRCULATION OF DR CATASTROPE by KANE X. FAUCHER
Faucher is a maverick denizen of CanLit's dark underbelly, and this cannon-blast of a book is testament to the fluidity of his pen. A bitter doctor unfairly accused and sent to prison, an old and ornery Frenchman in Louisiana who just wants people to leave him and his lawn alone, a paranoid ex-crooner trying to mount a comeback in the age of human jukeboxes, a disgruntled academic whose career is being sabotaged, and a Rabelaisian narrator who has united them all in a tavern tale. Delight in the satirical volleys of vitriol and angry, streaming fury from the mouthiest, most opinionated, and disillusioned old men in a book that surreptitiously draws the essence of polemic in the history of literature and expresses the most outlandish statements with a double donkey punch of humour and shock. This is certainly not a book for the delicate. Review quotes: In this novel, Kane X Faucher seeks to denounce, through language, everything that anyone, anywhere, has ever held dear. Utilizing a shifting array of narrators (separate pieces of a scatological“anti-self”), he treats bitterness as parallax, exploring the relation of perspective to society—banal, oppressive, destructive, but ultimately inescapable… a magnificent work of art, hilarious and virtuosic. — Kyle Muntz, author of Voices. The shadow of Celine’s genius dominates the book; Celine combined with George Carlin. — Prakash Kona, author of Nunc Stans. Kane X. Faucher’s schizographic Dr. Catastrophe is a bizzaro-charged scrabblific shrap-spray of apocalyptic logos and Célinian infospection that leaves you raw and gasping as if you’ve just been donkey-punched from Timbuktu to Duluth. — Mark Spitzer, author of the transgressive novel CHODE! Faucher is without a doubt the greatest literary parodist in existence. His Celine, in particular, is uncanny to the point of making me superstitious at times. — Tom Bradley author of Bomb Baby Get it on Amazon.com (US) as paperback or on Kindle; France, Germany, UK, Canada, and Japan Try before you buy, or just buy the full ebook at Smashwords Barnes & Noble (US) Powells (US) Booktopia (Australia) Bookadda in India | CATASTROPE on the web
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