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Missouri Williams\u2019s d\u00e9but novel, \u201cThe Doloriad,\u201d which was published in 2022, is full of images that seem intended to disturb and provoke. Its characters\u2014a family of at least six siblings and their parents, who themselves are also siblings, along with a lone schoolmaster\u2014inhabit a world that has recently suffered a cataclysm, which, as far as they know, has wiped out almost all other human life on earth. They are somewhere in Eastern Europe. It is in this bleak terrain that Williams\u2019s unsettling images proliferate: a brother rapes one of his sisters, who has no legs and seems incapable of speech; that same sister, the titular Dolores, is frequently likened to a pig; their mother, known as the Matriarch, is confined to a wheelchair for mysterious reasons and rarely removes a pair of haunting wraparound sunglasses from her face; the family gathers around their TV to watch a program about a cheerleader whose classmate Brad, it seems, has just driven a pole through her chest. (Basically, \u201cThe Doloriad\u201d is the third season of \u201cEuphoria.\u201d)<\/p>\n

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Stylistically, the novel is full of unexpected flourishes (one character\u2019s hair is described as \u201cwimpled, be-nunning him\u201d), despoiled scenery (\u201cthe broken facades of the gray buildings were interrupted only by\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. strange, trembling columns of vegetation\u201d), and vaporous angst (one sibling\u2019s hatred for another is described as \u201cthick, indivisible; an indistinct welt of what used to be identifiable moments\u201d).<\/p>\n

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And yet, despite this wealth of minutiae and misery, \u201cThe Doloriad\u201d is somehow empty. Although events do take place, the narrative lacks plot, character development, a sense of history, and crucial details. (What was the cataclysm? How did any of these people survive? Why does their TV still work?) Throughout, the novel\u2019s close-third snapshots of the characters\u2019 inner lives display a moral and affective nihilism. At one point, the schoolmaster thinks, \u201cThe history of the world was the history of cruelty.\u201d Later, the Matriarch muses, \u201cThe history of the world was the history of God trying to kill it off.\u201d<\/p>\n

A generous reader might conclude that \u201cThe Doloriad\u201d is preoccupied with emptiness, that it constitutes an extended meditation on life\u2019s futility. Perhaps it is for this reason that coverage of the book has associated Williams with enigmatic, claustrophobic, spiritually searching writers of global literature, including the Brazilian Clarice Lispector, from whose novel \u201cThe Passion According to G.H.\u201d Williams borrows one of \u201cThe Doloriad\u201d\u00a0\u2019s epigraphs. The two books share a racing, hyperbolic approach to interiority. Their authors also each humble characters who cling to superficial social graces in an attempt to evade abjection. (The climax of \u201cThe Passion According to G.H.\u201d comes when the narrator consumes the innards of a cockroach.) But Lispector\u2019s narrator consciously tells a story that she hopes will save her from a diminished existence, a life without much self-reflection, memory, or human connection\u2014\u201cWord and form will be the board upon which I float atop billows of muteness.\u201d \u201cThe Doloriad\u201d delights in snapping all bonds, then deflating the life raft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Williams\u2019s second novel, \u201cThe Vivisectors\u201d\u2014the subject of a reported eight-way bidding war in her native Britain (she lives in Prague now), and out last month in the States\u2014continues some ways down the path of developing, or at least exhibiting, her themes of brutality, entropy, and disgust for humankind. Its narrator, a young woman named Agathe, is a great hater. She hates her father, a famous writer and academic who has dedicated his life to recording the history of his family in ever more minute detail. \u201cEventually,\u201d she says, \u201cour family had been described so intensely that there was no longer anything else to it but that heap of sentences, each one pushing out the last, until there was only a writhing blackness, the words with all their letters smashed together and struggling like a shoal of fish caught in a net.\u201d<\/p>\n

She hates the university, which is at the heart of social relations in the unnamed city that she grew up, and still lives, near, and where seemingly the only available professions are gardener, writer, editor, professor, and architect. Her father is not the only influential scholar and writer in her distinguished family, and Agathe herself studied literature at the university, but she finds academia irredeemably phony. She prefers the subject of her own unqualified brilliance to any of those on offer at the university, returning often to the theme that she is more intelligent and poised than those around her, even haughtily proclaiming, \u201cIf I wanted to, I could have a great destiny, just like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the novel opens, she is in her fourth year working as an assistant to a lecturer in urban planning, whom she refers to only as \u201cmy boss.\u201d Agathe absolutely hates this woman, too, describing her as \u201cindiscriminate,\u201d \u201cdesperate,\u201d and \u201cterribly insecure.\u201d These charges are, to her mind, exemplified in the boss\u2019s body, which is \u201cmountainous\u201d in a way that implies a lack of self-control (as opposed to Agathe, who describes herself as \u201ccalm and clear-eyed\u201d). While directing these bilious thoughts outward, she acknowledges in herself a profound alienation that is, by her own account, like \u201ca big dead rock\u201d in her soul. \u201cWhen I thought of\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. the qualities that supposedly made me me<\/em>, this was all I saw.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. How could I feel anything other than the same dull hatred a rock feels when I had been made with it buried inside me?\u201d Curiously, as the novel progresses, we discover that Agathe shares this fundamental lack with nearly all the other characters, who are described as empty or dull inside.<\/p>\n

Agathe\u2019s most pronounced hatred is reserved for her mother, who we learn, in the novel\u2019s first pages, has recently attempted to drown herself in the bathtub. She survives but, paralyzed and silent, spends her days in a wheelchair like the Matriarch from \u201cThe Doloriad.\u201d Visiting her mother shortly after the suicide attempt, Agathe describes her face as \u201cslack and stupid.\u201d Agathe alludes to some childhood trauma, of which her mother is perhaps the cause. However, Agathe, in contrast to her prolific father, recollects almost nothing of her family history, which she implausibly attributes to a decision in adolescence \u201cto stop remembering things.\u201d Though the father\u2019s novels are alluded to at length, their content is never fully revealed. In the final pages of the book, Agathe abruptly drowns her helpless mother in a man-made pond near her father\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The novel\u2019s main two conflicts center on the university. First, there is an ongoing existential battle being waged between the university (the purview of the academics) and the city\u2019s wild, unstoppable greenery (the purview of the gardeners, a quasi-mystical class of stoic workers who wear wide-brimmed hats and communicate in parables and aphorisms). As a consequence of the gardeners\u2019 inability or refusal to prune back the escalating trees, weeds, and wildflowers, the city\u2019s infrastructure is \u201ccrumbling\u201d and its inhabitants are moving to the countryside. It seems possible the city is heading toward a cataclysmic event\u2014but, in the end, the gardeners and the academics arrive at a truce.<\/p>\n

The second conflict is a cancel-culture-on-campus story. The conflict is ignited by a political-science student named Adam, whom Agathe describes as combative and as having \u201ca bright, enameled charm right up until the moment when he didn\u2019t, and then he became sulky and petulant.\u201d He is also hot. One day, he says something offensive, probably racist, to a professor during class. Adam and the professor\u2019s ethnicities are never named, although it\u2019s implied that Adam might be Jewish, the professor Black or Arab, and what follows is a kind of alternate \u201cHuman Stain\u201d situation. The incident quickly becomes infamous on campus and gets Adam in severe trouble with the administration.<\/p>\n

Characteristically, Williams never divulges what Adam actually said. But the magnitude of the scandal and its cultural implications are dwelled upon for pages by several of the characters, including Agathe\u2019s boss, who compares young people to the titular \u201cvivisectors\u201d in what is essentially a rant against cancel culture. She accuses Agathe\u2019s peers who have turned on Adam of refusing to \u201clet goodness thrive\u201d and of wanting \u201cnothing more than to cut people down for the slightest error,\u201d particularly when it comes to \u201cmen, especially masculine men.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Agathe finds her boss\u2019s remarks dull, but more or less shares these views. The image of the students as vivisectors, committed to extracting the hearts and licking the bones of the transgressors in their midst, seems to mirror her own hatred of the university\u2019s tendency toward frenzied analysis. (She favors the gardeners\u2019 spiritual connection with nature.) Plus, Agathe herself is given to edgelordy grandstanding. \u201cWhen it came to men,\u201d she says, \u201cthe university had become a place where the ordinary rules were inverted, any idiot knew that. They had been given a lot of apologizing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Could the character of Agathe be intended as satirical? A sly sendup of a power-tripping 4chan-poster type, a lady gooner getting off on resentful fantasies of her innate superiority and heightened intelligence? Given her compulsive contrarianism, and the absence of characters who are significantly different from her, it\u2019s tricky to gauge the novel\u2019s level of self-awareness. The world of the novel, as far as we know, matches Agathe\u2019s description of it perfectly. It is presented in earnest, and never more so than when it broods upon the subject of Adam, a troubled and aggressive young man who enjoys discussing the importance of aqueducts to ancient civilizations. He is well matched with Agathe, who believes she is \u201cunable to imagine love without dominion\u201d and wants someone to understand her \u201ceither absolutely or not at all.\u201d Their conversation, rarely reproduced, is described as \u201ca dialogue between mirrors.\u201d When they finally hook up, the results are corny, like a dark-academia \u201cFifty Shades of Grey.\u201d Adam pushes Agathe down onto the bed and whispers a secret name in her ear. Later, he licks tears from her eyes. \u201cI had never noticed how long his eyelashes were before,\u201d Agathe remarks.<\/p>\n

In a piece for The Drift<\/em> in 2022, Williams wrote with approval that the novelists she was reading were eschewing \u201ccontent\u201d for form and \u201cthe internet\u201d for \u201chigher things.\u201d Citing \u201cPure Colour,\u201d by Sheila Heti, and \u201cCheckout 19,\u201d by Claire-Louise Bennett, as successful case studies, she argued that \u201creading the internet is less important than reading God\u2019s book, also known as the world.\u201d One can imagine that some of this same intent lies behind Williams\u2019s creation of Agathe, who excoriates the noisy proliferation of opinions at the university and venerates nature for its mute surfaces and stubborn, occult power.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And yet \u201cThe Vivisectors\u201d still feels unhelpfully caught in the crosshairs of the internet, and not only because of the many trollish remarks that appear in its pages. One of the narrator\u2019s complaints about literature is \u201cthat books had emptied along with the world that contained them because now almost everything that mattered to us took place inside our devices, on the abstract territories of the internet.\u201d Is \u201cThe Vivisectors\u201d disparaging this sort of \u201cemptied\u201d novel, or attempting to give it newfound spiritual relevance? I tend to think it\u2019s the latter. Either way, abstraction wins out. For instance, Williams\u2019s looping descriptions of the encroaching wilderness can be quite compelling, but there is something off about them. Though the special attention Agathe pays to the forest supposedly sets her apart from the navel-gazing academics who surround her, the trees she is spending all this time noticing don\u2019t bear fruit or house animals. They are only intermittently given distinguishing characteristics or classifications. Light passes through them or doesn\u2019t, that is all. They are a kind of sylvan screen saver. The quality of light as it cuts through tree canopies and windows is addressed constantly:<\/p>\n

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The door to the room was slightly ajar. The light passed through it and slashed diagonally across the hallway. The effect was transcendent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The sun was setting: an orange disc sank to the earth in stages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Enormous oaks thronged the high banks of the road: their broad branches extended high above our heads before knitting together and partially blocking out the sky. The sunlight that slipped through them streamed into the carriage and made squares of light on the floor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

These descriptions recall a passage midway through the novel in which Agathe, while listening to Adam and her boss complain about the drama on campus, pictures \u201ca series of geometric shapes colliding on a flat brown plane, cubes, spheres, cones, and cylinders, four-cornered pyramids, and a great dodecahedron.\u201d Elsewhere, Agathe announces that in literature it\u2019s form that moves her, not content: \u201cI read my way through the canon of our worldly culture, so-called masterpieces that left little impression on me, and then I sat my exams and passed them without ever having gained any insight into the human soul. In fact, all that I had understood were patterns, structures, and shapes.\u201d Her way of seeing is unusual; it\u2019s also clunky and shallow. Light is a series of squares. People are a series of disappointments. Adam eventually becomes the exception.<\/p>\n

Williams may have meant for Agathe\u2019s romantic entanglement with Adam to represent emotional growth, but the ending, arriving as it does after all that prolific hating, feels tacked on, and doesn\u2019t overcome the novel\u2019s predominant style, a calculated avoidance that manifests as faces that can\u2019t quite be made out, voices that can\u2019t quite be heard, plots and personalities shot through with holes. \u201cThe Vivisectors\u201d quashes substance in its search for higher things. And yet it has a redemptive streak: its search for a language of spirituality, as opposed to intellect, is an intriguing and ambitious one. One hopes that in the future this literary impulse will take root and flourish.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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For now, \u201cThe Vivisectors\u201d stands as a reminder that it is not in the nature of a novel to defeat all meaning. Some portion of light inevitably filters through. I have a suspicion that Agathe\u2019s near-stifled longing\u2014for love, understanding, and transformation\u2014illuminates the way forward. She has been coddled and cloistered within her city, but the spreading vegetation interferes with that way of life. It confronts the university and blocks the roads she\u2019s accustomed to travelling on. The wayward trees are forcing a change, even if no one else will. In this reading, which goes against the novel\u2019s self-protective wish not to be interpreted, the wilderness doesn\u2019t represent the destruction of insight but the beginning of experience.\u00a0\u2666<\/p>\n

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