R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis touches on a range of near-universal academic experiences: impostor syndrome; frantic, caffeine-fuelled study sessions; watching someone effortlessly ace every single test you suffer through; and, of course, accidentally sending a professor to the depths of Hades. For the novel’s protagonist, Alice Law, all of these experiences are just a string of inconveniences […] The post Academia is hell, literally: R.F. Kuang’s ‘Katabasis’ appeared first on Cherwell.
