In this brilliant and hilarious political novella, Leslie Kaplan imagines a series of unconnected crimes occurring throughout France.
In each, a subordinate kills someone in a superior position over them--typically with an object used in their work, be it wiring in an auto shop, a huge sack of coffee, or a blackboard eraser.
While these acts (no explanation is ever given by the criminals) clearly have a class-related character, the media and public figures are loathe to admit that class struggle still exists.
Their denial of reality creates another thread in this joyful, dark satire: the fumbling of experts who mobilize theory after theory in order to analyze what is happening without admitting that the events could have any political content.
About author(s): Leslie Kaplan was born in Brooklyn, New York, but raised and educated in France.
Winner of the Prix Wepler 2012 for her novel Millefeuille, she is the author of twenty-five plays, novels, and books of poetry.
Her work has been translated into eleven languages.
| Satire | The fumbling of experts who mobilize theory after theory in order to analyze what is happening without admitting that the events could have any political content |
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| About author(s) | Leslie |
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