Here are V.I.S. de Veyra's brief recommendation notes on the following books, regarding their respective significances for our time:

 

    "A book with an obvious significance for this, our generation, soaked in a sublime "police state" and de-blessed by a subtle blindness towards the myriad of elements."

    "A fable with an obvious political, social, and human significance for a geo-politicized generation, from a Portuguese communist who writes beyond the confines of sheer partisanship and for the joys of sheer existence."

    "A thick book still worth reading as a black comedy on the possible excesses of a bookworm intelligentsia and, in contrast, the stupidity and corruption of the letter-less masses. Although, as Salman Rushdie seems to suggest in an edition's blurb quote, the umbrella point may be 'agonising' when read as the same point of every developing chapter."

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    "As the American art magazine Artforum suggested, this is the first novel to 'non-judgmentally acknowledge the real lumpen-prole' psychology behind heroin use in mid-eighties UK."

    "Although this is poetry, this old book's 'storyline' could be read as that, a story. And yes, as probably the most ancient reference/prototype for working-class rock music's rebellion against monarchic or middle-class standards for measuring/defining the good life."

-- created April 24-25/2000

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