Mountain R (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781564783301)

In an unnamed country, the President of the Republican Council, wanting to "do something big," strikes upon the idea of building a 1,500-meter high mountain as an inspirational monument to national greatness. Construction of the mountain will reduce unemployment, attract hordes of tourists, and the idea can even be exported for sale to other countries. Mountain R relates the rise and fall of this insane project through the eyes of those involved over several decades: the President whose double-talk sets the plan in motion, a worker who, years later, tells his daughter about the disastrous consequences of the never-completed mountain, and an author commissioned to write a novel about the project. An incisive satire about the dangers of half-witted government officials who use political rhetoric to manipulate the patriotism of their constituents, Mountain R is a humorous yet disturbing allegory quite appropriate to our times.

Author: Jacques Jouet
ISBN-10: 1564783308
ISBN-13: 9781564783301
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2004
Pages: 143
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.00w x 0.49d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/02/2004 pg. 59