Hanshe's style is original, tough, strong, ironic, but at the same
time classical and noble, witty and never banal, in fact rich with
slang and polyglot eruptions. The Abdication is a utopian and
fantastic journey that will surely make readers reflect, engaging
them in the intellectual pathos of this abdication. Being a true,
singular abdication, it pushes our whole civilization, our
traditions, and our values, to be subverted. - Alessio Riva,
Corso Italia
With this new novel, Hanshe reinforces his growing reputation as
one of today's most original and thought-provoking novelists. -
Keith Ansell-Pearson
The Abdication is a visionary novel of dangerous ideas, a
theological thriller concerned with the absence of god and the
question posed by the phrase: Dionysus versus the Crucified. It is
as richly allusive as it is physically direct: a novel of revolt
that can at times be revolting in its relentless push to break the
mold of idealist thought. As well argued as it is intricately
arcane, indeed dense with learning and lore, this book is both
experimental and assured, a comedy of high seriousness and gospel
of the flesh that our winded civilization has needed for 2,000
years. Ridendo dicere severum! -Stuart Kendall, author of Georges
Bataille
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