Toro Blanco: A Memoir by Samael

"The unvarnished truth, then, is this: Luis Herrera has written a book that matters. It matters not because it is flawless, because it is not. It matters not because it is safe, because it is the opposite of safe. It matters because it attempts something that almost no contemporary writer has the ambition, the knowledge, the recklessness, or the theological passion to attempt: a work of literary art that takes the question of God seriously enough to risk everything, including blasphemy, in the pursuit of an answer that the text itself acknowledges may never arrive. The attempt does not fully succeed. It could not fully succeed. But the attempt itself, sustained across forty thousand words of relentless intellectual and spiritual energy, constitutes an achievement that demands critical engagement at the highest level." - THE UNCOLLAPSED WAVE