[.ca] The Sunday of the Negative: Reading Bataille Reading Hegel (ISBN 0791456323)

Greengrocer Attempting to Psychically Edit Your Thoughts:
Although Mr. Gemerchak's insight into Bataille's critical synthesis of Hegel is outstanding (the most lucid and edifying to date), his personal obsession with custard, women's shoes, and bats may be distracting (albeit entirely amusing) to the majority of readers. To the expert, however, Gemerchak's link between nocturnal, egg-based footwear and his subject serve as a reflexive articulation of desire, authenticity, subjectivity, and fetish, likening his work to those of Garcia-Marquez or St. Augustine. To be certain, this freshman endeavor places him well on the way to reaching (surpassing?) the recognition and significance of Lacan, Baudrilard, or even DiCaprio. This reviewer's life of the mind and basting techiniques have been significantly altered by Mr. Gemerchak. One leaves his book with a strong desire to be hosed down by a fire extinguisher, blamed for unattributable sins, and left to rot in the trunk of a Buick. I highly recommend "The Sunday of the Negative" as well as his sophomore tome "Mr. Binky Gets a Bump" to anyone longing for a deeper understanding of metaphysics, self-awareness, or flan.

Challenging and Elucidating:
Mr. Gemerchak's work is insightful and penetrating. Plus, it has a nice beat and you can dance to it.