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Schopenhauer
203 pages, Paperback
Published September 4, 2026
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October 2, 2026
All our sufferings spring from having to do with other people. Or in A. Schopenhauer’s case here, they spring from Nathan Knapp.
Knapp’s Schopenhauer is treated to all conceivable misfortunes, much to our gleeful enjoyment. The policemen, the poodle dogs, Witold Gombrowicz and Christ-himself all feature as both antagonists and recipients of A. Schopenhauer’s rage, most often retold from the shallow-end of an apartment complex pool to our author/narrator.
The final act of the novel is a stylistic departure, and reminds me of Fosse, or even Gaddis to a certain point. I can’t help but read it as a coda to the end of his previous novel, Daybook, where he speaks of his own future suicide, this time in service of A. Schopenhauer’s reckoning with God.
Dark, grotesque and probably the funniest book I’ve read since Sebastian Castillo’s Fresh Green Life. Everyone should read Nathan Knapp.
Knapp’s Schopenhauer is treated to all conceivable misfortunes, much to our gleeful enjoyment. The policemen, the poodle dogs, Witold Gombrowicz and Christ-himself all feature as both antagonists and recipients of A. Schopenhauer’s rage, most often retold from the shallow-end of an apartment complex pool to our author/narrator.
The final act of the novel is a stylistic departure, and reminds me of Fosse, or even Gaddis to a certain point. I can’t help but read it as a coda to the end of his previous novel, Daybook, where he speaks of his own future suicide, this time in service of A. Schopenhauer’s reckoning with God.
Dark, grotesque and probably the funniest book I’ve read since Sebastian Castillo’s Fresh Green Life. Everyone should read Nathan Knapp.
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