John Fraser's Medusa is a stunning fable for our times, in which
the stories of Medusa, the Gorgon and the French ship Medusa are
intertwined to create a Pilgrim's Progress for the 21st century.
'Medusa is a trip, a bending of the legends. It is a symphonic
poem, where at the end, we even hear a few notes of a hymn to joy.
The fragments of myth, legend and belief drift round like harmonies
that seek resolution. But this mode is post-modern, post-Christian;
it is about the end - yet there is no end: it is story. The
resulting tale is an apocryphal blast and a literary tour de force
that uncannily captures the zeitgeist.' (Jean-Paul Bouler) 'In
Fraser's fiction the reader rides as on a switchback or luge of
impetuous attention, with effects flashing by at virtuoso speeds.
The characters seem to be unwitting agents of chaos, however much
wise reflection Fraser bestows upon them; they move with shrugging
self-assurance through circumstances as richly detailed and as
without reliable compass-points as a Chinese scroll.' (John Fuller)
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