Communion

by Graeme Gibson

Exclusively available from Anansi Digital, Communion is one of the lost, great works by a Canadian literary titan.Originally published in 1971, Communion continues the story of Felix Oswald that began in Five Legs . We meet Felix Oswald again, a self-mocking and obsessed hero, a voyeur, and all-time loser, after he graduates from school and accepts a job as a part-time veterinarian's assistant.A groundbreaking work of experimental fiction, Communion is a must-read for lovers of Canadian literature.

Genres: Canada

80 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Graeme Gibson CM was a Canadian novelist and conservationist and the longtime partner of author Margaret Atwood. He was a Member of the Order of Canada (1992) and one of the organizers of the Writer's Union of Canada. He was also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada. Gibson was best known for his 1973 book Eleven Canadian Novelists, a non-fiction work.

Reviews

[Nate D · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ah yes, here we are, another extreme modernist work from Graeme Gibson that no one is reading and no one evidently cares to, including perhaps Gibson himself, who never wrote in this manner again after the twinned debut of which this slim novel constitutes the more austere (though no less hallucinatorily arranged) second part. It's dire and fantastic.

[David]

A nightmare-hallucination-puerile fantasy of a novel. At least it is not utterly lacking in provoking Ciardi’s sympathetic contract. But the most admirable character is the terminally ill husky dog. Voyeuristic, homophobic, misogynistic, surrealistic, plastic. I didn’t much like it.