tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5565504476154775525.post7012383192469189193..comments2012-11-13T05:24:10.142+00:00Comments on fictionstream: Dambudzo Marechera, Black Sunlight, 1980Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5565504476154775525.post-4412543778002099012010-05-09T18:53:35.574+01:002010-05-09T18:53:35.574+01:00Not a particulary useful review. A lot of biograph...Not a particulary useful review. A lot of biographical cliches are included to little real point (beyond the obvious, which suggests that Marechera was a mad and bad writer writing a mad and bad novel). For a novel to be plotted, there must be a fixed self with reference points. As Black Sunlight is about loss of reference points and self, to read it for plot is rather pointless. The faults here relate to the method of reading, not the novel.A.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08716463684593767622noreply@blogger.com