Agnomia
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press
Published:30th Oct '18
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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.
"In our millennium, a time of reduction and minimization, the aphorism has rightly returned. Its master is Róbert Gál." * The Forward *
"The Czech Cioran . . ." * Andrei Codrescu *
"Gál is a phenomenon unto himself: a purveyor of neurotic philosophy encapsulated in elliptical portents and epifragmentals, the content of which is at all odds with their length." * Joshua Cohen *
"Gál's aphorisms combine incisive question-raising and gently troubling images involving Time, God... and existential self-awareness." * Antioch Review *
ISBN: 9781628972795
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272 pages