Recent content by Mortimer

I am a big fan of 'Marxism and Form', his first book, written before postmodernism became a big issue in his work, but you can still see those concerns round the corner. It contains excellent analyses of Adorno, Benjamin, Sartre etc. It is more solidly in the literary theory bracket than...

Read Platform a while ago and I thought it was trying to be more transgressive than it was... It's pretty tame compared with Henry Miller, Burroughs, or Ballard. The main character obviously thinks he is some kind of immoral nihilist, but then the second half of the book is all about how great...