Rachel Kushner's Brilliant Avant-Garde Spy Thriller
Briefly

In a period of imperial decline, Góngora turned metaphors on their head, refashioning conventional language into something strange and unfamiliar, instigating a geometric multiplication of metaphor.
Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake embodies linguistic deviousness, exploring various themes such as radical politics and the life of small farmers while serving as a meditation on modernity and prehistory.
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