Speaking of 1984 and We

[The Great Quail]

I have been reading James Kelman's recent novel, "Translated Accounts." Very
fractured and Beckett-like, the book is composed of fifty-plus "accounts" of
life in an undisclosed country under martial law. The idea is that the
accounts were translated into English by a non-native speaker, fed into a
computer, organized, and then some accounts were touched up by "higher
authorities." 

Not the easiest work I've ever read, to be sure, but it has been giving me
that shiver of dystopian dread I haven't felt in a long time.

Tim Conley review:
http://www.themodernword.com/reviews/translatedaccounts.html

Interview with Kelman:
http://www.barcelonareview.com/28/e_jk.htm

--Quail