Sue Wrote:
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Witch Grass (Le Chien Dent)

>a funeral is shown from the perspective of a dog) neologisms, slang, puns, crude humor all suggest an off the cuff piece of work

Would he have been much influenced by Ionesco's "Bald Prima Donna"?


> [The book has 7 chapters of
> 13 sections each, making a total of 91 sections or
> the sum of the first 13 numbers.

So ... on that mathematical basis, it could be compared with the Mahabharata??

It's cyclical, beginning and
> ending at the same place more or less with the
> sense that nothing of consequence has actually
> occurred,

So ... a bit like "Ulysses"?

(I hasten to add, however, that I haven't read Chien Dent, or the Mahab., and certainly not Ulysses; and it's been many, many years since I last read "Bald Prima Donna".)