Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Luke Carman, the circle of life, and the world as an ecstatic masterpiece

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par Claire Corbett, Lecturer, Creative Writing, University of Technology Sydney

It’s one of those circle of life kind of things, the antagonist Hopper says in Pixar’s A Bug’s Life, explaining how his gang of marauding grasshoppers exploit the ants with a dry cynicism that Luke Carman might appreciate. It wasn’t until I reached the final story in Carman’s collection An Ordinary Ecstasy that this phrase came to mind, as the structure of the book resolved itself into an Ouroboros: the snake biting its own tail…

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