Insects and Innuendoes

by Gergo Sastyin

Insects and Innuendoes isn't just a book—here, the words are self-aware.
It begins as a collection of surreal poems but quickly spirals into something stranger: an autotheoretical labyrinth where consciousness loops, time loses direction, and perception gets stuck on an Escherian train.
What unfolds is a metaphysical experiment disguised as literature: a nonlinear fabric of thought, stitched with quantum uncertainty and mythic unease. Beneath its syllabic skin, existential tension and psychological dissonance pulse.
A paraliterary protagonist—distorted by memory and metaphor—winds through poetic portals as semantics mutate, syntax metastasizes, and pragmatics trigger the pain of temporality.
In this Möbius strip of identity and illusion, the reader becomes part of the mechanism: co-dreamer, co-decoder, and conspirator in the text's collapse. And inevitably, in helping its captive escape, becomes the site of re-entry—into the neural meadows of the vulnerable mind.

68 pages, Paperback

Published August 26, 2025

About the author

Gergo Sastyin is a Hungarian-born polyglot, poet, translator, and data analyst with a degree in cognitive psychology from the University of Tokyo. His writing reflects his experiences in Japan, the United States, Turkey, Spain, and North Macedonia, as well as his work across academic research, language education, literary translation, and exploratory coding and design—bringing together a global, interdisciplinary perspective that fuels his experiments in quantum absurdity and metaphysical verse.

Reviews

[Mattimaxo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Too many innuendoes...not enough insects

What started as a confusing (for me) landscape of these so-called antitemporal archives, gradually comes together with some cleverly descriptive dream-like passages. The poetry flows well, and it is worth a re-read.