‘Fuck it!’ ” His/hers is the voice of a mysterious Anabaptist heretic who, inspired by Martin Luther and kindred spirits, travels across Germany stirring up religious dissent, railing against corrupt priests and wayward aristocrats. One of them, it seems safe to say, is quite fond of the earthier matters in life: “He farts, sniggers, swigs. The book has its pleasures, one of which makes for the same kind of fun that Harold Bloom had in distinguishing the authors of the Book of Genesis-namely, identifying the voices of those four young scribes. Luther Blissett is a learned-allusion pseudonym for four unnamed Italian writers the publisher tells us only that they are young, and that Q is a “cult bestseller” in Europe. A sprawling cowl-and-dagger novel-by-committee, recounting a game of theological spy vs.
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