Alex Kudera’s Reviews > The Sick List > Status Update

The giraffe scene is on page 78.

And then on page 97, this snide little Bernhard wannabe has the audacity to vent about overdone "negativity" in Horacio Castellanos Moya's Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador.

Noted: he leaves translation and translator(s) out of it. . .

Ansgar Allen's The Sick List is must-read academic life meets Thomas Bernhard in a fancy new world of giraffe spittle, stall squatting, dehydration, and catatonia. Discard your life and read this novella.

Every Gordon should read this novella.

perfect for Thomas Bernhard fans destroyed by academia

I was enjoying this one-paragraph wonder at 2 a.m., but then due to fits of uncontrollable laughter--the weird kind with strange noises where you doubt your ability to breathe and fear the neighbors may call the authorities--I had to stop reading, calm myself, and turn off the lights. So far, it does for academic mentoring and textual analysis what Auggie's Revenge and FFYLD have done for the adjunct experience.