“A wildly meandering and scathing rumination ” – The Mongolian Travel Guide by Svetislav Basara

"It’s a book very much in the European experimental tradition: a metafictional philosophical satire that holds no truck either with verisimilitude or likeability. It’s Dalkey Archive at its most Dalkey Archive. When it’s funny, it’s grim and clever and quick: ‘That which is called rain would be just as wet and bothersome, and you would still feel as miserable, unnecessary and pitiful, if it were called Margaux Hemingway or Susan Sontag.’ Basara knows a lot and he expects his readers to keep up with him. Although the plot – such as it is – is arcane and (deliberately) illogical, the references are dense, and the story’s full of tangential sub-narratives (Mercier’s story, the bishop’s account), it’s enormously entertaining, if only for Basara’s carping and complaints..." - Valerie O'Riordan reviews The Mongolian Travel Guide by Svetislav Basara

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