Metaliterature

I'd usually include a funny quote here, but I can't remember any. In fact I can't even find my copy, so maybe I dreamed reading this? OMFG, it’s been like totally nearly three GD’d years since I started reading this book. As a consequence, I cannot say authoritatively, at least from my own recall and without recourse to a convenient plot recap (and analysis) provided by a writer and literary critic, Tom LeClair, in the rather excellent on-line literary magazine Full Stop , what the effing heck it’s all about. Tom, to his credit and by proxy my validation, makes reference to one of my literary heroes, John Barth, in his review and so I must immediately defer to his objectively better judgement when it comes to assigning value to this slim novella. From his good-to-great article, I deduce that the story follows a man of dubious character but significant leisure, as he in turn follows an exotic half-Brazilian man of similar, if not greater, leisure, around an Icelandic city o...