Edward Said: His Thought as a Novel

This is not a novel.

It is, however, a pretty great book. I come at it from a place of not knowing much about Said, and nothing at all about Edd??. I still loved it–lots of intricate analyses of complex problems, summed up at times very nicely. And some windows into both Said and Edd??. My favorite stuff was about his ideas' relationship to those of Camus and Sartre (though if you're going to use them in this book, why not deBeauvoir, too?), but it was nice to see Vico represented some too. And I learned quite a bit about Joseph Conrad.

It's also a lovely slice of how a person grieves.