Visits of Love (Jarry, Alfred, Works, 5.)

I've always appreciated the 'pataphysics of Alfed Jarry, and Visits of Love is a fine example of Jarry executing a work of anti-erotica, muddled with short prose on visiting various brothels the short novel is dispersed with visits to the Doctor, visits by Fear to Love, and visits to Death. For me, I took these visitations as a reworking farce to do with the earnestness to be had with Victorian erotica and smutty literature, as Jarry cuts the genre with a sneeringly distracted and sarcastic hoity-toity drunkenness of thought.

Due to Jarry having a rather small body of work, this is certainly a pleasurable read, and embodies his ability to write by the coattails of his subconsciousness.