PositiveFriezeA painfully self-interrogating book ... At times Penman uses Fassbinder as a kind of Dionysian object to condemn the ideologies of efficiency, hygiene and \"wellness\" that dominate the present ... Penman affirms his attachment to Fassbinder formally, because this is an excessive book. In its exuberant phrase making, obsessive listing, emotional explosions and crashes, bursting seams... and its linguistic pyrotechnics, it ultimately comes down on the side of willing delirium.
