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“... the labyrinth of Le Dernier Musée. The exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne, curated by Olivier Weil and Hélène Leroy, might have used Gysin’s multi-voiced fiction as gallery plan. The Process parallels the show, worlds within worlds, as a form of posthumous confession in which barely disguised figures, lovers, associates and enemies are ...”

“... to fire on their own troops. The entire sequence is an education in the process (as Simone Weil said of The Iliad) by which men are turned into things; and the deafening sounds of the battle account for much of the effect. The general orders a hundred of the men who retreated or refused to attack to be shot by a firing squad, then bargains himself down ...”