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Author Kaplan, Leslie, author.

Title Disorder : a political fable / Leslie Kaplan ; translation and afterword by Jennifer Pap.

Imprint Chico, California : AK Press, 2020.

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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F KAPLAN LESLIE    Check Shelf
Description 45 pages : illustrated ; 17 cm
Summary In this brilliant and hilarious political novella, Leslie Kaplan imagines a series of unconnected crimes occurring throughout France. In each, a subordinate kills someone in a superior position over them--typically with an object used in their work, be it wiring in an auto shop, a huge sack of coffee, or a blackboard eraser. While these acts (no explanation is ever given by the criminals) clearly have a class-related character, the media and public figures are loathe to admit that class struggle still exists. Their denial of reality creates another thread in this joyful, dark satire: the fumbling of "experts" who mobilize theory after theory in order to analyze what is happening without admitting that the events could have any political content.
Subject Murder -- France -- Fiction.
Social conflict -- France -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Satirical literature.
Short stories.
Added Author Pap, Jennifer, translator, writer of afterword.
ISBN 184935393X
9781849353939
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