English writer Tony White is a representative of the movement called “avant-thrash”. The essence of “avant-trash” is that the serious ideological problems of our time are packaged in a deliberately boulevard shell: thereby their essence is often exposed and through the comic neo-Rabelaisian style it becomes possible to see the manipulation of public consciousness lying under their surface. And if you don’t want to delve so deeply into the philosophy of mass culture, you are free to see in White’s novels just a cheerful parody of the exaggerated seriousness of many modern avant-garde movements.