Kafe Gavani - An Obscenity By Edgar J Barrett - Serialized Online
(PRLEAP.COM) Set in an outlandish alternate reality where anything is possible (and permitted) Kafe Gavani is a surreal, patchy, with unashamedly contradictory and at times incomplete plot lines. Kafe Gavani is off the dial.The novel incorporates and at times parodies many recognisable literature styles, however manages to re-interpret them into a distinct voice that is raw, vibrant, hilarious, earnest, while simultaneously being acutely offensive and strangely erotic. It features a narrative unlike anything you have read before and will leave some who come in contact with it irrevocably scarred.
Over a period of approximately 15 years Edgar J Barrett wrote a series of stories set in a parallel universe spanning several thousand pages, which he called his Hate Manifesto. It was written over a number of years, during which Edgar apparently went through bouts of alcoholism, drug addiction, depression and several stints inside prison. Now it seems to keep his Hate Manifesto in some orderly fashion was far too simple for Edgar. According to publisher Godfrey Redburn, various pieces from his stories have been scattered in various places, including with friends, in prison libraries and attached to (sometimes as) letters to various publishing houses…
What was remaining was given by Edgar to Godfrey Redburn to edit and publish as he saw fit, with no further contribution from the author himself. Godfrey Redburn assembled a group of eager literature students to painstakingly trawl through the Hate Manifesto to transform it in to a reasonably coherent work of fiction. After several botched attempts the editors eventually settled on the concept of restricting the focus to the stories of several characters, with particular a focus on the character J, a misanthropic drug fuelled vocalist of the appalling punk band The Jizzbuckets. It has been explained that they decided to use this, as it was the only narrative that was mildly coherent and complete in both theme and plot. The result of their editing is the publication that is the novel Kafe Gavani - and what a novel it is.
Edgar J Barrett is unmistakably a well read scribe. Any fan of literature or popular culture can pick up some of the countless and sometime obscure references. Reading Kafe Gavani, it becomes evident he has a love hate relationship with the very culture he devours.
On the surface Kafe Gavani is odious with what appears to be a ludicrous plot. However additional scrutiny reveals that Kafe Gavani is an intelligent laugh out loud comedy featuring a savage assault on the ostentatious world of high art. Somewhat paradoxically Kafe Gavani mixes under-graduate humour with the conventions of highbrow literature to dissect and defecate that very culture. As for the plot line, this is on close inspection a clever little beast. While on the surface it may appear preposterous, it is in fact a subtle and enchanting parable on how J (and one suspects the author) reconciles with his inner critic.
Kafe Gavani is serialised online at www.kafegavani.com
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