The Cyclist Conspiracy

Posted on 15 March 2018 by Svetislav Basara

The Cyclist Conspiracy tells the tale of a secret Brotherhood who meet in dreams, gain esoteric knowledge from contemplation of the bicycle, and seek to move in and out of history, manipulating events the Brothers are part of a conspiracy so vast and so secret that, in many cases, the conspirators themselves are unaware of their participation in it Told through a series of historical documents memoirs, illustrations, letters, philosophical treatises, blue prints, and maps the novel details the story of these interventions and the historical moments where the Brotherhood has made their influence felt, from the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand to a lost story of Sherlock Holmes.Masterfully intertwining the threads of waking and dreams into the fabric of the present, the past, and the future, Svetislav Basara s Pynchon esque The Cyclist Conspiracy is a bold, funny, and imaginative romp. Read The Cyclist Conspiracy Author Svetislav Basara – kino-fada.fr Kowalskyyy The Evangelical Bicyclists of the Rose Cross are lurking the shadows, their numbers are made up with people like George W Bush Jr, Emil Cioran, Steven Hawking and Woody Allen They have existed for centuries and they meet in their dreams and plot for the final battle when the forces of good will vanquish the worldly forces of evil Some say that they have existed ever since the Tower of Babylon was destroyed and the Architects who attempted the infernal tower s creation began to plan Kowalskyyy The Evangelical Bicyclists of the Rose Cross are lurking the shadows, their numbers are made up with people like George W Bush Jr, Emil Cioran, Steven Hawking and Woody Allen They have existed for centuries and they meet in their dreams and plot for the final battle when the forces of good will vanquish the worldly forces of evil Some say that they have existed ever since the Tower of Babylon was destroyed and the Architects who attempted the infernal ...Book upon book upon book read by MJ, another capsule review scrunched and scrunched and scrunched, another five or six idle likes from the idle masses The MJ GR reviewing production line is ON STRIKE You hear me, ingrates I have signed up instead to the Evangelical Bicyclists of the Rose Cross, and I will be reviewing instead the correspondence from Joseph Kowalsky, beginning with a letter from Sigmund Freud to Manny Rayner, outlining his new theory about GR reviewers whose phallic reviewin Book upon book upon book read by MJ, another capsule review scrunched and scrunched and scrunched, another five or six idle likes from the idle masses The MJ GR reviewing production line is ON STRIKE You hear me, ingrates I have signed up instead to the Evangelical Bicyclists of the Rose Cross, and I will be reviewing instead the correspondence from Joseph Kowalsky, beginning with a letter from Sigmund Freud to Manny Rayner, outlining his new theory about GR reviewers ...The first 75 pages of this book floored me Basara posits a sect whose members question the nature of reality and strive to separate themselves from the lies that they see pervading all existence Various documents surface throughout the book, including a lost Sherlock Holmes story correspondence between Sigmund Freud and characters in the book newspaper editorials discussing the ideological stance of some mysterious document called the Dictionary of Technology and many other fragments an The first 75 pages of this book floored me Basara posits a sect whose members question the nature of reality and strive to separate themselves from the lies that they see pervading all existence Various documents surface throughout the book, including a lost Sherlock Holmes story correspondence between Sigmund Freud and characters in the book newspaper editorials discussing the ideological stance of some mysterious document called the Dictionary of Technology and many other fragments and parts in different genres and modes.Collectively, these pieces loosely describe a secret society that has charged itself with combating a great mental sickness that plagues nearly every hu...My reading of such was enhanced by reading while in Beograd, but suffered from drowning in pivo and being unable to access a corresponding bucket of espresso This was a novel with warm nature and the Indian Summer of Serbia in late Sep...Prvi put sam pro itala roman koji ima ovakav nivo mistifikacije do te mere da pored metafikcije izra ava u sebi i sumnju o sopstvenoj mistifikaciji deo kada se spominje sam roman i sumnja u njegovu verodostojnost Delo tretira mnogo tema istoriju, odnosno vreme kao neshvatljiva me avina pro losti i budu nosti, ustrojstvo dru tva i njegove zablude, ovek i stalna potreba da svoj smisao tra i u ne em to ga prevazilazi, itd Imala sam mnogo misli, ali me je forma romana spre ila da svaku od n Prvi put sam pro itala roman koji ima ovakav nivo mistifikacije do te mere da pored metafikcije izra ava u sebi i sumnju o sopstvenoj mistifikaciji deo kada se spominje sam roman i sumnja u njegovu verodostojnost Delo tretira mnogo tema istoriju, odnosno vreme kao neshvatljiva me avina pro losti i budu nosti, ustrojstvo dru tva i njegove zablude, ovek i stalna potreba da svoj smisao tra i u ne em to ga prevazilazi, itd Imala sam mnogo misli...reviews.metaphorosis.com 4 starsThe fragmentary history of the Evangelical Bicyclists of the Rose Cross Members receive dream instructions from future members, and arrange events so as to prevent the reconstruction of the Tower of Babylon.This book was presented to me as the best of Serbian sarcasm It may well be, and it certainly has overtones of sarcasm throughout The concept is absurd, the construction interesting, the writing strong Serbian authors seem to tend toward the experimental, reviews.metaphorosis.com 4 starsThe fragmentary history of the Evangelical Bicyclists of the ...There is something inherently heretical about bicycles A mode of transport that s powered by man alone, which looks impossible but that anyone can master, whose adherents buzz back and forth through cities with little care for rules since the big cities of Europe are built either for cars or mass transportation The illusion of freedom and free will free wheel that can end under the wheels of a bus at any second An...This is difficult to review because it s not so much a novel in that the story is a smattering of journal articles, poems, epistles, universal omniscient narration, historical documents, illustrations and biographies of the Little Brothers of the Evangelical Bicyclists of the Rose Cross a nod to the Rosicrucian secret society, i believe If the numerous form don t make it disjointed enough, the book is steeped in esoterica, Marxist politics, and classical European philosophy, notably that o This is difficult to review because it s not so much a novel in that the story is a smattering of journal articles, poems, epistles, universal omniscient narration, historical documents, illustrations and biographies of the Little Brothers of the Evangelical Bicyclists of the Rose Cross a nod to the Rosicrucian secret society, i believe If the numerous form don t make it disjointed enough, the book is steeped in esoterica, Marxist politics, and classical European philosophy, notably that of Hegel While there are certainly moments of brilliance that r..., , ,, , , , ,, ,An extremely creative book in both the story and the form it takes A bizarre sect shows us how some beliefs, for people who are not believers, cannot be understood The bicycle is a symbol of man and woman, religion and change A belief that the future chang...

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15 March 2018

Svetislav Basara