Thought Patterns
by Emanuel
I already wrote about Rawi Hage’s award winning first book, DeNiro’s Game, and although it took me longer than I had expected to get around to his sophmore literary work, I’m glad I did at last. Going from writing about survival in his native Lebanon to the immigrant’s quest for survival in Montreal’s cold winters, the landscape changes but the struggle remains.
Fighting for his existence in the ‘underground’, Hage’s main character flirts with insanity while crossing over from the world of cockroaches and the world of humans, all with a very visual prose. While ‘DeNiro’s Game’ felt like it was written in one sitting as an outpour of the heart, this second novel displays a methodical approach to capturing the environment with Hage’s signature visual metaphors.
Cockroach confirms what I thought after reading his first book: Hage is a literary talent and I will be looking forward to his writings for a long time to come.
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Daniel Julien
Looking forward to read this! DeNiro’s game was really captivating . . . specially for a person like me who only reads images.