Raven's Lair

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The Noxious and the Daemon Flower
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"In May 2008 I had the great pleasure of seeing Le Comité de la Fin du Monde, which to me stole the show at the Montréal Anarchist Theatre Festival. Bruno Massé was part of that troupe and its audacious, hilarious, and finally anti-civilization performance.

Bruno (aka Raven) is also a novelist and his The Noxious and the Daemon Flower is another great pleasure. I think that if Raoul Vaneigem (Situationist and master of radical subjectivity) had written a goth novel he couldn't have done better. Its forward, in fact, sends the work off in a more radical spirit; it is presented "In feral and infectious anarchy."

Coming from the pen of a dramatist, NDF is, unsurprisingly I suppose, highly dramatic. It is variously dark as Midnight, lush and over-the-top Romantic in style, demented, nihilist––and quite unique. For it is also utopic, philosophical, focused. It has edge, it has passion. Dim, Aethel, Daeva and many others share their odyssey, their battles and narrow escapes and more, with nothing held back. A wild ride, very much worth taking!

-John Zerzan

John Zerzan is today's most significant voice in anarchism and radical environmentalism by far. Author of Elements of Refusal, Questionning Technology, Future Primitive, Against Civilisation, Running on Emptiness and Twilight of the Machines. Co-editor of Green Anarchy and host of Anarchy Radio.

This is a valuable introduction to the visionary world of a significant new voice in contemporary anarchist literature.

Raven demonstrates in his own brilliant, imaginative way, how novelists, and not politicians or media darlings, are the true barometers of our time, and how the 'flames of a burning black star' can illuminate another possible road towards self-assertion and human liberation.'

-Norman Nawrocki

Norman Nawrocki is an internationally acclaimed, Montréal-based author, musician, sex comedian/educator, cabaret artist, actor, producer and composer. Author of Breakfast for Anarchists, The Anarchist and the Devil Do Cabaret, No Masters! No Gods!, Chasseur de Tornades and Rebel Moon.