I shot Mussolini

"Entering history gun in hand, Eldon Garnet found the room deserted, or filled with the babble of the media. What else is there to do for a tentative tyrannicide but kill time, and a few celebrities? I Shot Mussolini brilliantly manages to turn politics into fiction and terror into tourism. A cool and lyrical statement about the disappearance of our times. Well, so says Lotringer anyway."

Garnet's fictional narrative rewrites episodes of history - from the bombing of Hiroshima to the attempted assasination of President Reagan -"to explore questions of memory and of terrorism and of the way communication manipulates truth". Includes brief biographical notes.