Strange Attractors

by Louis Armand

Armand keeps it to the skin, 'obstinately full of holes,' which answers back to the question of whether things suddenly become simple. They don't. --Daniel M. Nester, La Petite Zine precise language succinctly expressing sophisticated ideas--one can tell he enjoys the act of creating, not just the finished product of the poem. --Edward Taylor, The Plaza cool ... postmodern --Kevin Hart, The Sydney Morning Herald scrapes away at language to form strange, new forms --David McCooey, The Age armand is the international conduit for much of the dialogue that’s developing today. he is an internationalist, an innovator … he’s genre busting & on an “open” passport --John Kinsella, The Sydney Morning Herald Louis Armand is director of the InterCultural Studies programme in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University, Prague. His books include Essays on Criticism & Culture; James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology; and Incendiary Discourses of the Other.

132 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Louis Armand is a writer and visual artist who has lived in Prague since 1994. He has worked as an editor and publisher, and as a subtitles technician at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and is an editor of VLAK magazine. He is the author of eight novels, including Breakfast at Midnight in 2012, "a perfect modern noir, presenting Kafka's Prague as a bleak, monochrome singularity of darkness, despair and edgy, dry existentialist hardboil" (Richard Marshall, 3:AM), CAIRO (Equus Press, 2014; short listed for the Guardian's Not-the-Booker Prize), and THE COMBINATIONS (Equus Press, 2016). Described as "Robert Pinget does Canetti (in drag in Yugoslavia)," Armand's third novel Clair Obscur was published by Equus in 2011. His previous novel, Menudo (Antigen), was described as "unrelenting, a flying wedge, an encyclopaedia of the wasteland, an uzi assault pumping desolation lead... inspiring!" (Thor Garcia, author of The News Clown).