";s:4:"text";s:5265:" Having sympathy for a disgusting person like Colonel Pyat, proves the quality of Moorcock's work.
Anyway, the whole quartet is great, though very uncomfortable, reading.The last book of the Quartet takes the hapless and intrepid adventurer Pyat from Africa to the darkest parts of early 20th century Europe- first to Mussolini's Italy and then to 1930's Germany.
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Incidentally, his connection to the character of Mrs. Corelius links the Colonel Pyat Quartet to the Cornelius Quartet (whose protagonist, Jerry Cornelius, is her son, though presumably not Pyat's).
Sign up for the newsletter. But the way we find out brings home quite how dishonest, disloyal (to everyone except Mrs Cornelius) and self-obsessed Pyat really is. The Pyat series is simply outstanding.
Pyat assumed his mother dead in Stalin's Soviet Union, and is excited to be reunited with her!
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Born in Ukraine on the first day of the century, a Jewish anti-Semite, Pyat careered through three decades like a runaway train. The first book told of his perils in Russia and Ukraine during the rising tide of the Bolshevik revolution; the second told of his escape from Turkey to Italy and France, where he became involved in a massive fraud scheme (of which he saw himself as the victim!)
Of course he chooses the faction that loses during the Night of the Long KnivesIf you have made it through the first three volumes of Colonel Pyat's outrageous memoirs of outright lies, half-truths, evasions, cover-ups, rationalizations and even quibbles, then you know what you are going to get in this book where our anti-hero stumbles into his Fascist wonderlands in Italy, Germany and even Spain.If you have made it through the first three volumes of Colonel Pyat's outrageous memoirs of outright lies, half-truths, evasions, cover-ups, rationalizations and even quibbles, then you know what you are going to get in this book where our anti-hero stumbles into his Fascist wonderlands in Italy, Germany and even Spain.The final installment of the Colonel Pyat Quartet was as brilliant and horrific as the first 3 volumes - Colonel Pyat is a terrible antihero created by Michael Moorcock, an author known for his antiheroes (like Elric, who certainly secured Moorcock's place on the "Appendix N" of Gary Gygax, the list of authors and books who inspired the creation of Dungeons & Dragons and thus role-playing games in general).
That refuge turned into her highly anticipa...The fourth and final volume of the legendary Pyat Quartet.The fourth and final volume of the legendary Pyat Quartet.After three books of tall tales that often completely conflict with history, genius "inventions", rampant drug use, rape and more unnecessary and arbitrary insults directed at Jews than there are Jews in the world, what's left for a potentially insane and completely unlikeable protagonist to go?
Select your address In this book, Moorcock shows how fascism could take hold of so many in the West in the first half of the 20th century while keeping Pyat a loathsome yet endlessly fascinating narrator.
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It contains one of the most disgusting sex-scenes in contemporary literature and there are occasional moments of obscure linguistic invention but if you get past the first ten pages, I think you are in for a treat and will find it hard to put down.This is the fourth of four novels and bear in mind that I have not read the others - but it stands alone as one of the most remarkable attempts to get inside the mind of the idealistic European fascist.
As things settle down after the war, he becomes more secure in his invented persona.
In the third volume he escapes debt and accusations of fraud again, to North Africa, in theory to make more movies, but really as much to escape his own past and gratify himself as anything else.
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I admit I was a late returnee to Michael Moorcock.
