
In Exiled from Almost Everywhere, Juan Goytisolo`s perverse mutant protagonist
- the Parisian ” Monster of Le Sentier”
- is blown up by an extremist bomber & finds himself in the cyberspace of the Thereafter with an infinite collection of computer monitors. His curiosity piqued, he uses the screens at hand to explore the multiple ways war & terrorism are hyped in the Hereafter of his old life where he once happily cruised bathrooms & accosted children. Ricocheting from life to death & back again, meeting various colourful demagogues along the way
- the imam ” Alice, ” a pedophile Monsignor & a Rastafarian rabbi
- our ” Monster” revisits seedy democracies that are a welter of shopping-cities & righteous violence voted in by an eternally duped citizenry & defended by the infamous erogenous bomb. At once fantastical & cruelly real, Exiled from Almost Everywhere hurtles the reader through our troubled times in a Swiftian series of grisly cartoon screenshots.