The rest of the novel follows the relationships between Roberto and the students as well as the police efforts to solve the murder, and it involves a daunting roster of characters — a teenage runaway hitchhiking to Toronto from northern Ontario dodging dodgy men on the way, Jasper’s parents, Roberto’s aunt and uncle, other medical students, Mexican Parabolists, a cuckold, a pimp, a couple of cops and a creepy anesthetist. And they all have their story. Here is where the problem lies, for The Parabolist, though comic and inventive, is the literary equivalent of minestrone soup. Everything is here: characters who seem superfluous, plot lines that serve no purpose, and more broad brush strokes than a prairie mural. And an excess of, for want of a better word, exuberance– Jasper is caught with his pants down too many times. Even farces have their limits.
Toronto Escorts: Farce offers too much of a good thing
March 8, 2010 · No Comments
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