



One of them, it seems safe to say, is quite fond of the earthier matters in life: “He farts, sniggers, swigs. The book has its pleasures, one of which makes for the same kind of fun that Harold Bloom had in distinguishing the authors of the Book of Genesis-namely, identifying the voices of those four young scribes. Luther Blissett is a learned-allusion pseudonym for four unnamed Italian writers the publisher tells us only that they are young, and that Q is a “cult bestseller” in Europe. A sprawling cowl-and-dagger novel-by-committee, recounting a game of theological spy vs.
