Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers

There was some intense and poetic imagery and language in use here, the picture that Guyotat paints of war and humanity's darkest desires is an absolutely hellish one, and really losing yourself in this novel can be a dark experience. At the same time wallowing in the dregs like this becomes repetitive, maybe that is part of the point and the act of becoming desensitized to such horrors over the course of 500 pages is saying something about the human tendency to normalize the inhuman, but as an exercise in reading it started to become a bit of a slog.