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Joseph Scapellato’s ‘The Made-Up Man’ Brings Forth 21st Century Absurdism
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Joseph Scapellato’s ‘The Made-Up Man’ Brings Forth 21st Century Absurdism

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 / 6 February 2019

In rendering his most avant-garde characters as members of a kind of self-help conspiracy in The Made-Up Man, Joseph Scapellato offers not an update but a revision of absurdism, and as such, many social phenomena ripe for satire get off easy.

Soul Murder and Dreams in ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’
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Soul Murder and Dreams in ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’

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 / 17 September 2014
Like the cobwebs and spider webs that colonize a neglected basement, Haruki Murakami’s filamentous plot threads trail uncannily across our psyches.
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The Price of Apathy

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 / 6 August 2013
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Kafka Noir: ‘The Sickroom’ and ‘A Country Doctor’

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 / 2 February 2012
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Lemon Tree

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 / 4 January 2010
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The Resurrectionist by Jack O’Connell

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 / 1 April 2008