OK - it’s common knowledge that European arts culture is generally more liberated and in a way, controversial, but holy cow -

I was flabbergasted by this German import picked up from the display shelves @ our very own Hayden Humanities library…

Wetlands (Feuchtgebiete), by Charlotte Roche, was published in English in April 2009. To quote Wikipedia, “For supporters it is a piece of erotic literature; for critics it is cleverly marketed pornography”. Seeing how 1 million copies have been sold worldwide, this piece of literature has obviously lured in the evermore open-minded popular culture.

I had read maybe 2 paragraphs… then put it down for its in-your-face vulgarity. But I might just go and read some more tomorrow - just to look for any sense of cohesion, theme, character development, imagery (oh that shouldn’t be hard), and you know, all that hot literary jazz.

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JlX