Archive for June 6, 2009
PYGMY by Chuck Palahniuk
I Begins here review of literary object Pygmy, product American capitalist publishing machine, ISBN 978-0-385-52634-0, subversive author Chuck Palahniuk. Mission to summarize, analyze, and assess.
If you could not appreciate this broken, propaganda-laden English for over two-hundred pages, then Palahniuk’s new novel might seem tedious to you rather than engaging. For more willing readers, though, Palahniuk rewards with thematic richness, an enticing plot, and plenty of laughter in his latest dark comedy. Foreign exchange students from an unnamed oppressive socialist regime have arrived in an unnamed midsized Midwestern city to create chaos in America’s virtuous heartland. Armed with years of political indoctrination and martial arts tactics, their mission – Operation Havoc – consists of progressing to the National Science Fair in Washington D.C. where they will commit a massive act of biological terrorism. The story is narrated by of one of the operatives himself – dubbed Pygmy by his ignorant American peers – all the while pointing a painfully truthful finger at some of the ugliest aspects of American culture and society.
June 6, 2009
Tags: Humorous, Unique Narrative Posted in: Experimental Fiction, Humorous 
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