Inventing Reality
Review: Haute Surveillance
Katlyn Slough
Haute Surveillance
Johannes Göransson
Fiction
Tarpaulin Sky Press, pp. 191
Cost: $16.00
Review: Haute Surveillance
Katlyn Slough
Haute Surveillance
Johannes Göransson
Fiction
Tarpaulin Sky Press, pp. 191
Cost: $16.00
Johannes Göransson’s second novel, Haute Surveillance, first introduces his nameless narrator in the midst of confusion: he immerses his readers in a world of grotesque and vivid imagery, of “a thousand mute actresses with their mouths full of jewelry,” of a “cutting room” that is “full of soldiers masturbating.” He places readers in his piecework of violence, sex, art and emotion, in short snapshots of unexplained events, and leaves them scrambling to find their way out. Readers get one companion, one true character: an unreliable, determined, and probably insane narrator, and the reader slowly realizes this world is the narrator’s own.
Göransson makes it clear from the very first page that the reality of the situation isn’t important, what is happening isn’t even important. The ideas are.
Göransson makes it clear from the very first page that the reality of the situation isn’t important, what is happening isn’t even important. The ideas are.
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