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El the Victorious finished this book (now).

It's becoming very evident to me that Susan Sontag is one of those authors that is meant to be experienced, not discussed. But that's really pretentious, so let's see what happens as I try to review this completely cerebral book.

Very similar to Sontag's first book, The Benefactor: A Novel, in that the protagonist (Dalton "Diddy" Harron in this book) has trouble discerning between dream and reality. During a train trip he vividly recalls killing a railroad worker, though the woman in the cabin with him (albeit she's blind) is adamant that he never left the room the entire trip. It begins there, and then there's a crazy relationship between Diddy and the blind woman, Hester. He becomes obsessed with her visual disability, and sight becomes symbol and metaphor throughout the story for so much more.

Better than The Benefactor as far as I'm concerned but, like I said, similar in structure. We see Sontag begin to flex her writing muscles a bit more here, and in some way manages to ground her nightmarish world - drawing focus where The Benefactor lacked. It's not easy to sit down and plow through either of these books - for an easier read one might want to consider Kafka (this would be like his brain on drugs).