Title: The godlike Disch.
Review: A noteworthy piece of literature, comparable I think with both Eco and Pynchon. This is written from the point of view of an intellectual - high on the mental equivalent of killer steroids, living in a commune of likewise mentally enhanced political prisoners. What I think is paticularly at issue, is the fact that Disch to some extent ( I think anyway ) satirises intellectualism, and knowledge's more exigent demands upon the human spirit ( as he did in 'the squirrel cage'). Hence the inmates scholarliness is synonymous with the drug / disease palladium. It is a book tinged with an inimicable sadness, and Sachetti's triumph when it comes, is realised at a price - does his 'transcendence' violate his conception of his own humanity?. Whatever. This is a very good book by a master of dark, dark parody. READ!.
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