RaveThe BafflerBalle seems uninterested in developing tension, or other conventional aspects of the novel, like character or plot. Instead, she treats her speculative framework like a petri dish—another container—wherein she can experiment with new lines of inquiry in clipped, plain language, without ever intending to arrive at an absolute solution or a unifying theory ... It is an experience of reading that is synergetic and thrilling ... Allows you to arrive as a participant to a series of moments that are at once past and present; moments in which you are superlatively, actually awake.
PositiveTimes Literary Supplement (UK)With his delicate humour and control, Antonio di Benedetto persuasively explores the etiology of contemporary masculine dysfunction – that is, as a crisis of social utility.
