Chris reviewed Barefoot in the Head by Brian W. Aldiss
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3 stars
Was this actually written on LSD as it seems? Colin Charteris is the messiah to a drug-changed and war-torn Europe (can anyone spot the shade of Jerry Cornelius around here?). Aldiss has been going back to his strange obsessions ever since, a half-real central Europe of dingy hotels and car accidents and paranoid men and women. The language is impacted and punning and reveals something weird, I don’t know what. ‘Kerouacs’ are a noun and ‘maureen’ is a colour.
Was this actually written on LSD as it seems? Colin Charteris is the messiah to a drug-changed and war-torn Europe (can anyone spot the shade of Jerry Cornelius around here?). Aldiss has been going back to his strange obsessions ever since, a half-real central Europe of dingy hotels and car accidents and paranoid men and women. The language is impacted and punning and reveals something weird, I don’t know what. ‘Kerouacs’ are a noun and ‘maureen’ is a colour.
