Posted on 31/01/04
Voice of violence
Rising Up and Rising DownBy William T. VollmanMcSweeney's Books,seven volumes,3,298 pages, $160 William T. Vollman is a postmodern fictioneer, notorious for his voluminous production of encyclopedic, brontosaurian novels that have already begun to stack up like cinder blocks since the appearance of his first, probably most celebrated, tome, You Bright and Risen Angels. Despite writing prolifically, often for 16 hours a day, he has nevertheless found time to risk his life, travelling to some of the most perilous military hot spots of the world in order to bear witness there to the harrowing condition of the underclasses.
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