Zizek on Paul Theroux & 'Small Details' (was Re: Zizek on Havel)

[Carl Remick]

>Whoa, Zizek likes Paul Theroux?  That's a bad taste!  In my view, Theroux's
>racism & arrogance are equal to V. S. Naipaul's, and it is difficult to
>match Naipaul on this score!

Theroux and Naipaul can both be pretty obnoxious and richly deserve one 
another's enmity.  That said, I'd like to put in a good word for Theroux's 
novels The Mosquito Coast and The O-Zone, both of which, I would argue, 
offer piercing social insights.

Carl

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