![]() ![]() He is notionally an Anabaptist religious fanatic, but his character displays very little genuine religious conviction. I found some of his motivations, however, of questionable believability. The primary protagonist’s narrative is dramatic and vivid: he comes across as dashing, romantic and largely sympathetic. In the presence of its elusive and mysterious title-character, it also has elements of the spy thriller. ![]() The plot could be described as darkly picaresque, following an unnamed but many-pseudonymed protagonist through the violent, post-Lutheran sixteenth century, full of religious conflict. Q is self-consciously a ‘political novel’, and perhaps had I read it in that frame of mind, its (in all honesty, few) problems and political viewpoint would have seemed to me to be less jarring. It is very well researched and the historical setting is, by and large, convincing. Most of its characters are engaging and believable. Although written collectively, the novel is stylistically uniform and the writing beautifully descriptive without being florid. ![]() This novel, written by the Italian authors known collectively as ‘Luther Blissett’ (now writing under the pseudonym ‘ Wu Ming’) was published in 1999. ![]()
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