ISBN: 1628972793 9781628972795

Category: Fiction / General

Page count: 79

In this miniature masterpiece, Róoacute;bert Gáaacute;l―whom Joshua Cohen has called "a phenomenon"―conducts a noble experiment in uncategorizable prose. One long, unbroken paragraph, blending memoir, fiction, and philosophy, <i>Agnomia</i> takes the reader on a transcontinental journey from Lower Manhattan to the Little Quarter of Prague, but most of all it takes the reader on a tour of the writer's mind. Meditations on tautology, sexuality, and art culminate in an attentive evocation of a concert given by the composer and saxophonist John Zorn. For readers of Thomas Bernhard, Georges Bataille, and E. M. Cioran, <i>Agnomia</i> is a book to relish.