The Gospel According to Mr. Eric
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In his decadent and somehow disquieting prose, Evan Findlay Hay conducts a recent social history of Britain, performing the corruption of contemporary politics within language itself. But as the text is warped through gestures of trickery, Hay’s proletariat poetics gives way to something far more essential, a brochure of ‘beautifully simple dénouement’: The Gospel According to Mr. Eric. ‘By mastering basic instructions featured in The Gospel According to Mr. Eric’, vows Hay, ‘one can stealthily become a viral form of abuse in the novel shape of a corporeal rentier. If you can’t beat sinners, join them!’
‘The Gospel According to Mr. Eric testifies the making of histories and myths, both split and spilt across borders of genre and social strata. Yes, something something against totalising narratives something something but also: How do identities congregate around a cause in the first place? What are the textual mechanisms by which this occurs? Evan Findlay Hay is a serious lad.’
—Richard Capener