Reviews
The Atrocity Exhibition is not a novel. It is also, by all means, a strangely weird collection of electric flashes and hallucinatory dream sequences. It was clear from the get-go that I will re-read it many more times, and I enjoyed the prose and the style (unwelcoming as though it may seem at first) enough to look forward to that.
a dialectical soup, carefully considered and chaotically completed. it's an exploration of 20th century paranoia and death, from celebrities and politicians to vietnam atrocities. it's an exploration of the psyche of the main character, as he goes through different lives and ideas, figures and forms, and tries to create his own WWIII through the geometry of the human form and watches a woman conceive a fourth challenger astronaut in her womb (maybe?). it's weird, it may or may not be pretentious, and it's interesting to read. i liked it.
