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The Cyclist Conspiracy (2000)

by Svetislav Basara(Favorite Author)

4.13 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1934824585 (ISBN13: 9781934824580)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

review 1: If you have a sense of humor and a weakness for conspiracy then this is the book for you. Witty histories, letters, and manifestos from an evangelical group of bicyclists who meet in dreams to shape the future. I can't say I approve of all of their theology (they consider the female soul--bicycle frame--weaker because it lacks a horizontal cross bar) and I did need Wikipedia to brush up on eschatology and the history of iconoclasm, but this is my favorite Open Letter publication yet.
review 2: What a strange book. That said: I loved it, even when it drove me half mad. All the reviews of this one will likely use the term "Borgesian" to describe it, and rightfully so. More than Dan Brown or even Umberto Eco, Basara earns the right to have the Argentine master'... mores name associated with his text. This is not a novel but a collection of (fictional) documents edited to shed light on a secret society, so secret that many of its members are not aware they are members. Along the way are philosophical digressions, a lost Sherlock Holmes story, some plans for the assassination of Franz Ferdinand (composed many years after his death), the collected works of a fictional poet, anarchist, and self-proclaimed count, and a strange account of an apocryphal kingdom. Yeah, it's that kind of book. less

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