There are fake lectures, an invented liturgy, seventeen blank pages, and metafictional comment on Krasznahorkai's own previous novel "The Melancholy of Resistance".
He also bought himself 19,000 bot twitter followers and created a fake TED talk lecture, all to spruce up his CV.
At an auction house he humiliates a stiff-upper-lip employee by schooling her on fakes, a lecture that starts with his pointing out that a painting about to go on the block is a fraud and ends with his noting that her Boucheron eyeglasses are knockoffs.
Perhaps the most bizarre manifestation of this movement is the rise of "fake funeral" services, where participants are lectured by a philosophical guru and told to write their own eulogies, before spending 30 minutes meditating inside a coffin.
This group holds monthly lectures, and on Tuesday the topic will be fake meat, soy and other stand-ins for animal protein.
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"What the viewer sees depends on what they are looking for," intones one of the pseudo-Vissers; which epigram sums Last Lecture up nicely, until you realise it has been spoken by a fake.
From the 1820s to the 1860s, Libri, an Italian aristocrat, lectured at universities in France and Italy while pilfering library books and adding fake autographs.
In a more convoluted case, Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France's best-known philosophers, was left to ponder his own expertise after quoting the lectures of Jean-Baptiste Botul as evidence that Kant was a fake, only to find out that Botul was the fake, an invention of a French reporter.
As the ski-masked leader lectures the group in Spanish, I'm left imagining what the fake U.S.A. looks like.
