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The following nine reviews are cut-and-pasted verbatim from GOODREADS as of June 9, 2014

May 05, 2014 Gillian rated it 5 of 5 stars
Oulanem: A Fiction Conspiracy has left me feeling smarter for reading it.
Food for the mind, interesting and insightful.
To see what Marx was like in university was a lesson, and one liked.
Good read, recommend.

Jun 06, 2014 Ted Frank rated it 5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for: adult readers of historical fiction
Recommended to Ted by: The Clarion Review, The Kirkus Review
I've known the author since he was writing for The San Diego Review back in the 90s and won more writing awards in more categories than anyone for a decade. He always writes the way he wants, not the way the reader or publisher or critics might want. When he's done, they all seem to like it. He'd talked about writing this novel for a long time. It is vintage Majkut--very subtle, indirect, and suggestive. Readers who read closely love his work because it is quiet and has an cumulative effect. Surface readers who chew books like airport novels usually don't get it at all and it goes over their heads. Oulanem, as usual, is a story that leaves the reader with a bad taste in his or her mouth. It's pretty depressing. Maybe its depressing because, as the author always told me, he is writing about the reader.

May 12, 2014 Tatyana Neal rated it 4 of 5 stars
This novel is filled with captivating language ,amazing literary texture and eye opening story telling. Very admirable plot set ups. Oulanem has me on my toes with a hot cup of chai tea by my side.

Francis rated it 5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for: Readers interested in thoughtful stories
This is a very literary novel. It is also a 19th-century, historical and Gothic novel. I like the way the writer uses the incomplete work of Karl Marx. I had no idea that Marx wrote drama. The way the writer incorporates this into a novel is great. The story is full of characters who fit like pieces of a puzzle into an overall gruesome plot that moves very fast after heavy beginning that introduces characters and their problems. I didn't know that opium was used to help young women as a medicine for menstruation--and was addictive. The novel has a great villain.

Jun 06, 2014 Gabby rated it 5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for: adults who like literary mystery/fiction
Recommended to Gabby by: The Kirkus Review
What Thomas Piketty has done for Karl Marx' economic writings like Capital, Majkut has done for Marx's early, abandoned fiction, Oulanem. Piketty brought Capital into the 21st century and Majkut brings Oulanem to the present. In its own quiet way, this novel is scary and gothic and the tension builds very until the very ending. The first 100 pages are slow as the themes and characters are set, but after that it builds inevitable and unescapable momentum.

May 31, 2014 Pascualita rated it 5 of 5 stars
Oulanem is a fascinating narrative with a haunting halo of darkness. It portrays a man obsessed with revenge while a girl’s fate gets swallowed by the evil of vindictiveness.

A novel populated by emotional and powerful characters—from naiveté and innocence to the most twisted evil.

Mr. Majkut has created a complex and sophisticated novel with a chilling ending of ruin and desolation. A great read. Five stars to Majkut and Karl Marx.

Jun 08, 2014 Mindy rated it 5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for: late night readers
Recommended to Mindy by: Kirkus
I like historical fiction and Oulanem delves deep into nineteenth century Austria. It is also a dark revenge tragedy that just gets darker and darker until the end. It is very much like a Shakespeare tragedy with an evil, twisted villain. I am not sure how all the minor characters that Majkut brings in relate to the whole story but they are interesting in themselves. This was a very satisfying book that will stay with me for a long time.

Jun 08, 2014 Jean rated it 5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for: People who love literature
Recommended to Jean by: Kirkus Review
This is a frightening story of a young girl's physical pain and addition, incest, betrayal, and revenge. My kind of story that is well written and suspenseful. The ending, I think, means there will be a sequel featuring Beatrice, the misused young girl. There are so many villains in this novel that I think Majkut thinks the whole of humanity is composed of villains!

Beata rated it 5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for: serious adult readers
Recommended to Beata by: Kirkus reviews
The author makes Marx readable and even comic. There is some great humor here but you have to be looking for it because sometimes it is very wry and British, Hooray for Majkut for making this forgotten story unforgettable. Funny, yeah, but pretty shocking in the end.


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Oulanem A Fiction Conspiracy Paul Majkut Karl Marx 9781496053718 Books Reviews

The following nine reviews are cut-and-pasted verbatim from GOODREADS as of June 9, 2014

May 05, 2014 Gillian rated it 5 of 5 stars
Oulanem A Fiction Conspiracy has left me feeling smarter for reading it.
Food for the mind, interesting and insightful.
To see what Marx was like in university was a lesson, and one liked.
Good read, recommend.

Jun 06, 2014 Ted Frank rated it 5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for adult readers of historical fiction
Recommended to Ted by The Clarion Review, The Kirkus Review
I've known the author since he was writing for The San Diego Review back in the 90s and won more writing awards in more categories than anyone for a decade. He always writes the way he wants, not the way the reader or publisher or critics might want. When he's done, they all seem to like it. He'd talked about writing this novel for a long time. It is vintage Majkut--very subtle, indirect, and suggestive. Readers who read closely love his work because it is quiet and has an cumulative effect. Surface readers who chew books like airport novels usually don't get it at all and it goes over their heads. Oulanem, as usual, is a story that leaves the reader with a bad taste in his or her mouth. It's pretty depressing. Maybe its depressing because, as the author always told me, he is writing about the reader.

May 12, 2014 Tatyana Neal rated it 4 of 5 stars
This novel is filled with captivating language ,amazing literary texture and eye opening story telling. Very admirable plot set ups. Oulanem has me on my toes with a hot cup of chai tea by my side.

Francis rated it 5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for Readers interested in thoughtful stories
This is a very literary novel. It is also a 19th-century, historical and Gothic novel. I like the way the writer uses the incomplete work of Karl Marx. I had no idea that Marx wrote drama. The way the writer incorporates this into a novel is great. The story is full of characters who fit like pieces of a puzzle into an overall gruesome plot that moves very fast after heavy beginning that introduces characters and their problems. I didn't know that opium was used to help young women as a medicine for menstruation--and was addictive. The novel has a great villain.

Jun 06, 2014 Gabby rated it 5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for adults who like literary mystery/fiction
Recommended to Gabby by The Kirkus Review
What Thomas Piketty has done for Karl Marx' economic writings like Capital, Majkut has done for Marx's early, abandoned fiction, Oulanem. Piketty brought Capital into the 21st century and Majkut brings Oulanem to the present. In its own quiet way, this novel is scary and gothic and the tension builds very until the very ending. The first 100 pages are slow as the themes and characters are set, but after that it builds inevitable and unescapable momentum.

May 31, 2014 Pascualita rated it 5 of 5 stars
Oulanem is a fascinating narrative with a haunting halo of darkness. It portrays a man obsessed with revenge while a girl’s fate gets swallowed by the evil of vindictiveness.

A novel populated by emotional and powerful characters—from naiveté and innocence to the most twisted evil.

Mr. Majkut has created a complex and sophisticated novel with a chilling ending of ruin and desolation. A great read. Five stars to Majkut and Karl Marx.

Jun 08, 2014 Mindy rated it 5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for late night readers
Recommended to Mindy by Kirkus
I like historical fiction and Oulanem delves deep into nineteenth century Austria. It is also a dark revenge tragedy that just gets darker and darker until the end. It is very much like a Shakespeare tragedy with an evil, twisted villain. I am not sure how all the minor characters that Majkut brings in relate to the whole story but they are interesting in themselves. This was a very satisfying book that will stay with me for a long time.

Jun 08, 2014 Jean rated it 5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for People who love literature
Recommended to Jean by Kirkus Review
This is a frightening story of a young girl's physical pain and addition, incest, betrayal, and revenge. My kind of story that is well written and suspenseful. The ending, I think, means there will be a sequel featuring Beatrice, the misused young girl. There are so many villains in this novel that I think Majkut thinks the whole of humanity is composed of villains!

Beata rated it 5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for serious adult readers
Recommended to Beata by Kirkus reviews
The author makes Marx readable and even comic. There is some great humor here but you have to be looking for it because sometimes it is very wry and British, Hooray for Majkut for making this forgotten story unforgettable. Funny, yeah, but pretty shocking in the end.