ABSTRACT

The Club presents a more successful application of Friedrich Engels's dialectics, in that the events are genuinely presented as the resultant of clashing views and actions. This chapter suggests that the modernism of The Club educates readers into political and historical reading. In Drifting Cities information is conveyed in subsequent layers, which impels the reader to constantly revise previous reading strands. This renders the trilogy a rereadable text from the outset. In The Club Stratis Tsirkas explores political stratification in a game, but subsumes it under a modernist aesthetics of fragmentation that extenda its scope — as a social experiment — beyond the text and into the reader's world. In the case of The Club the reader replays the past incidents that are involved in the Mirador bets, which results in a recycling of events that the reader regarded as being complete.