I shall spit on your graves

✍ Scribed by Sullivan, Vernon

• Book ID: 110191717
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 67 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

"I Spit... is straight noir, but also a work of liberated imagination after four years of Nazi occupation: heady, abandoned, fevered and lubricious. A fusion of prime US pulp and French sado-eroticism" "The book is interesting from a historical standpoint because of its publishing history and Vian’s authorship hoax. It’s also a good example of an artful thriller that plays with the pulp conventions and uses the genre to satiric effect -- while reading the lurid story, readers are encouraged to conflate social criticism of race relations with sheer titillation, and the reception of the work dramatizes the way people can behave, as though reading a sensational novel about racial violence is the same as doing something about it. Unlike many pulp novels, Vian’s holds up as a strange and shocking read today, no small feat in a gratuitous age."