Le Town Empire

<P>Rambling unfocused convoluted and wildly entertaining Le Town Empire is at once a work of experimental fiction a love letter a satire of the avant garde and a literary scrapbook. It's narrator welcomes his reader to the city of Toronto Ontario a town overcome by self-righteousness self-importance and private self-loathing with which - as with it's inhabitants - he maintains the strictest of love/hate relationships. But never more so than with himself... He is constantly in conflicting views of himself due to his philosophy of individuality but also to his remorse for his lost love. The novel explores it's narrator's desire to change his identity and escape his surroundings while simultaneously being made undeniably aware of the impossibility of doing so. He is forever tied and bound to his identity and to those around by a network of tired memories experiences and personal connotations. Le Town Empire is a grandiose celebration of meaninglessness and redundancy.</P>