![]() ![]() The point of transgressive literature is to shock. Is this really how transgressive literature is treated nowadays? If something as tame as Lapvona is receives this treatment, how would the Sunday Times reviewer react to Urs Allemann’s seminal Babyfucker? The reviewer for the Sunday Times really went through it, claiming that the novel left them “wishing that no one would ever write, read or review another novel ever again.” The press reaction to Lapvona left me utterly disheartened. In the press it was often compared to the works of the Marquis de Sade, which made me feel that not many people have actually read anything by the Marquis de Sade. In reality it was very much transgression-lite, containing a couple of scenes of puerile behaviour - some light cannibalism, a stream of vomit here and there. ![]() Last year's Booker Prize list felt woefully tame, while Ottessa Moshfegh’s 2022 novel, Lapvona, was strangely crowned as the risky read of the year. ![]()
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