| Agnomia Contributor(s): Gál, Róbert (Author), Short, David (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1628972793 ISBN-13: 9781628972795 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Mashups |
| Dewey: 891.873 |
| LCCN: 2018026126 |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 5.2" W x 6.9" (0.20 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this miniature masterpiece, Róbert Gál--whom Joshua Cohen has called "a phenomenon"--conducts a noble experiment in uncategorizable prose. One long, unbroken paragraph, blending memoir, fiction, and philosophy, Agnomia 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, Agnomia is a book to relish. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gal, Robert: - Róbert Gál was born in Bratislava, Slovakia, in 1968. After living in Brno, New York, Jerusalem, and Berlin, among other places, he now resides in Prague. In his books of aphorisms and fiction, he has shown himself to be one of the major Slovakian writers of the twenty-first century. His book of aphorisms On Wing was published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2015. |