Rory's Adventure

This picaresque novel owes much to Cervantes Fielding and Bellow with a certain nod to Dostoevsky and Franzen. We meet the main character as a young successful adult and follow him into friendships and situations that are amusing crushing and even criminal. We follow his hilarious and fateful paths through multiple French trips including a pig hunt in Perigord. Paris Nice Monaco and Val dIsere are richly explored. In Mexican trips he is trapped in Mayan sexual rites climbs Orizaba and almost dies at sea in a Pacific storm. His formative life is recounted including events which warp forever his relationship with women. His psychic state permits sex with Greek goddesses and to receive stunning predictions from Apollo. Finally he is led to Hades by the goddess Juno a lover and tried by King Minos for the crimes of rape and murder. Persephone prosecutes and Pluto defends. A jury of prominent dead is selected. One witness Hitlers ghost describes the event that triggered his order to exterminate the Jews offered in evidence by Pluto as a counterpoint in magnitude to Rorys crimes. Rory denies guilt as the trial ends. Memory and imagination grow from the soil of the authors brain and by definition are autochthonic. Could you say that the fiction that fiction is fiction is not fiction?