Konkretion
UWA Publishing, $24.95 pb, 148 pp, 9781742584911
Fiction
Konkretion by Marion May Campbell
by Patrick Allington •
Whereas many twenty-first-century novels seem way too long, konkretion is a distilled, complex gem. It is a novella full of questions and questing, most of which riff from this observation made in the context of Germany’s militant Red Army Faction: ‘what triggers the conversion from resistance to terror, flick-knife or otherwise, the jump into illegality? – oh the primacy of praxis, that romance of struggle masking murder.’
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