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BklynKalliopiM
Feb 12, 2015BklynKalliopiM rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
A new favorite. Chevillard is a pro here, experimenting with tradition and nailing a kind of oddball humor. The opening pages remind me of "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Poe. Our narrator murders a woman for a serious offense: serving him his least favorite dish, cauliflower gratin. A few recent novels have played with footnotes, but this is the least irritating I've found footnote experimentation. The footnotes and the novel interplay nicely, instead of being distracting or irritating to the flow of the work.