Even Archimboldi, the core of Pelletier and Espinoza's scholarship, is this labyrinthine figure surrounded by disturbing dreams and an undercurrent of violence.
And very unacademic, I believe, though it's hard to say.
Yeah, it's hard to say without seeing more of him. At the moment he's just this black hole for wankers who'll agonize over riddles and decrypt clues about his work. He inspires bad dreams. And is it just me, or is it implied at the end of Part 1 that he might be a serial killer?
Indeed, else why all that certainty that he's in the town, and that it doesn't matter if they find him, the important thing is he's here in this environment and culture -- which is an idea I can sympathize with abstractly, but.... I wasn't at all sure of the significance of the killings of women and so on, and how/whether that was linked to Norton's departure. I noticed the next part continues with Amalfitano, so presumably we'll learn more to that end. Thoroughly confusing but I think I enjoyed it more than most of you all, though certainly not until the home stretch. My thoughts are scattered throughout this thread.And is it just me, or is it implied at the end of Part 1 that he might be a serial killer?