Referred to as ''cobra poison'' and ''the work of the
Antichrist'' by international religious figures, and as
''anti-literature'' by the author himself, Journey to
Virginland: Catena is a wildly irreverent, incendiary and
energetic tour-de-force that mercilessly skewers religion,
national identity, economics, gender, social mores, history
and even language itself. In equal parts satire, philosophy,
polemic and prophecy, Journey to Virginland: Catena explores
the odyssey of Dog, the canine protagonist, and his
encounters with both the origins and the manifestations of
dysfunctional and destructive social strata in a unique
voice, a voice at once both acerbic and erudite.
Dispossessed and polarized, Dog's pithy observations have
been called both ''heartbreaking and diabolical'' as
well as ''brutally raw, and painfully honest,'' earning
the author international praise as well as death threats,
interrogations, and suppression even before the work's
release. Journey to Virginland: Catena is a combustible and
explosive condemnation of the very canon of Western
civilization. Rejecting ''the protocols of the
conventional novel,'' its form and its structure in favor
of experimentation and epistolary fervor, Melikian has
crafted one of the most unique, ambitious and unforgettable
voices in the history of modern literature, a voice that has
much deeper ramifications for civilization as a whole. A
voice that is as inspiring as it is infuriating, as damning
as it is uproariously funny, as fragmented as it is astute,
as vitriolic as it is tender, and one that reminds us of the
very limits of our own innate humanity.
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