Title: Disorder: A Fable
Author: Leslie Kaplan
Translator: Jennifer Pap
Publisher: AK Press
Pages: 64
My GoodReads Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
The book begins with exploited people in France going berserk and killing their bosses. The wave of madness spreads with multiple crimes committed every day. Repeated attempts to make sense of this madness fail. The motivation, as expressed by the killers, is bizarre.
Much of the story is a recounting of the crimes. There isn’t a plot, nor any causality in terms of a storyline. Just a random series of unrelated killings that seem like an epidemic of sorts.
As always, when there are no answers, there are a lot of theories and expostulations. The wave of madness evolves until the distance between the killer and the victim is lengthened. The bizarre nature of the crimes and their unexpectedness is so unbelievable as to be laughable.
The tone of the narrative indicates that it has been written after the events described. Hopefully, some resolution was achieved.
(I read this book on Edelweiss. Thank you to the author, the publisher and Edelweiss.)
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