Reviews for The Franchiser

The average rating for The Franchiser based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-05-28 00:00:00 Christopher Barrett The Franchiser is the best Stanley Elkin's novel that I've read so far and it is a unique masterpiece. Consumerism is evil. The more we consume the emptier we become. Consumption and hedonism corrupt personality, society and culture. The Franchiser is a tale of the ultimate consumerism that turns the main character into the human pulp. Thus, ends are justified by means, since all means, if they work, are ultimately equal, that is, efficient. It is only ends which are unequal. We would both agree that some ends are nobler than others. Since means are interchangeable then, it is only ends which ever need to be justified. We live in a constant search for our due place in the world but in the process both we and our world keep deteriorating slowly.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-03-27 00:00:00 Ahsan Zahir Elkin is my comfort food, my junk-comfort food - all those lovely flamboyant calorie-filled sentences that fly by and tickle me in all the right places. I have loved others of his more than this, which felt a little unsubtle and obvious in its satire at times, but would still recommend it without hesitation.