Instead of a real story, it’s just the facts
Non-fiction
I Am Radar
By Reif Larson
Harvill Secker, €18.60
The first thing you encounter when you open Reif Larsen’s mammoth second novel is a “List of Figures”, which includes curiosities like “Miroslav’s Robotic Swan v2.1” and “A neutral current event, as observed in the Gargamelle bubble chamber”.
The last thing you encounter is a five-page bibliography that goes all the way from Antonin Artaud to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, via ...