Bullet in the Brain
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Bullet in the Brain
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Anders, the main character of "Bullet in the Brain", is a book critic, but he is not merely reviewing the books on his desk, he is reviewing everything surrounding him. Reviewing is probably a too generous description of what he does he is rather criticising than reviewing. In his eagerness to criticise it does not even matter to him whether or not he agrees with something. As Anders is standing in line in the bank, already in a bad temper, a woman in front of him shows her dissatisfaction with a teller, who closed her position, as lines grew longer. Anders answers the woman with a somewhat aggressive and sarcastic remark even though he has just "conceived his own towering hatred of the teller" (l.15).
When two ski-masked bank robbers appear in the bank Anders seems incapable of grasping the danger of the situation and instead he comments on the robbers' way of acting, like a cynical uninvolved reviewer:
"Oh, bravo," "Dead meat" "Great script, eh? The stern, brass-knuckled poetry of the dangerous classes." (l.36-37)
He is, however, not uninvolved and catches the robbers' attention...