Jean-Baptiste Del Amo

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ListJun 24, 2025

Fitzcarraldo Fiction

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ReviewSep 6, 2024

Living up to its reputation, this putrid book was not the breeziest read. Relentless misery hedged by long descriptive passages of piggy sex, shitting and slaughter. The prose is a waking nightmare that blurs ruined faces together, flattens time, and only bec…

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ListSep 5, 2024

bleak pastoral

locomotive tracks laid thru the garden of eden inspired by Animalia by Del Amo: descriptive nature lit with a pessimistic bent

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QuoteSep 4, 2024

Jean Baptise Del Amo

In the same time, the same space, men and beasts are born, struggle, and pass away; the father survives, whether by miracle or misfortune, until mid-March, then finally dies.

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Fitzcarraldo Fiction

miserable as pigs in shit

bleak pastoral

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Fitzcarraldo Fiction

miserable as pigs in shit

bleak pastoral

Jean Baptise Del Amo