The destructive desires of an inoffensive family man drive this subversive satire of existentialism
or Jean-Paul Sartre’s protagonist in Nausea, it was a stone on the beach that prompted overwhelming abhorrence at the nature of existence. For Rupert Thomson’s Phillip Notman, it is the beep of an electronic reader as it registers a travelcard. How to Make a Bomb , Thomson’s 14th novel, opens with Notman leaving an academic conference in Bergen, Norway. He is returning to London, where he lives with his wife Anya.
The novel is a surprisingly unobtrusive subversion of prose form – Thomson is a skilful and deliberate writer Notman moves on from Spain to Crete, where he stays in an empty house that belongs to a British couple he has just met. Skewering Sartre’s earnest example, Thomson’s novel turns metaphysical inquiry into a picaresque. Notman has already tried, and failed, to find something “authentic” in infidelity and folk tradition. Now his search leads him to try homosocial company ; religion ; and charity .
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