Binet is a very inventive and playful writer, and I really enjoyed 'Civilisations' and 'HHhH', but was a bit worried about this as it's quite an off-pitting title and requires a much greater knowledge of French history, semiotics, philosophy and intellectual life in Paris than I have. so a lot of it was impenetrable, but I could still enjoy it - the mix of real people and fiction, of mundane and surreal situations is my sort of thing, and the sort of book I'd write if I had the talent or imagination. Mine would feature Captain Haddock, Neville Southall and a three wheeled van rather than Derrida, Eco and epistemiology though
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