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Leviathan is an atheistic prejudice against Leibniz with Voltaires errors. An agnostic attitude was chic in that lost generation. (But Thank Goodness we have no heroes.) Voltaire is better with his Letters from England, and Leibniz is not wrong, but that is in discussion. Told me little.Tina is incomplete.
The Displaced are full of atmosphere, irritating, the best in Wundertüte.
That kind of Schmidt will remain. Ask others.
Enthymesis operates in space between nascent science and magic. Leviathan is a dark operatic triumph.
Alexander and The Displaced show Schmidt stretching out his prose/typographic muscles - the previous novellas are relatively traditional in style, but these two feel like (to me) a writer feeling his way out into the unknown (and are as successful/unsuccessful as one may expect from such testing of boundaries). Also interesting to see how his condensing of his prose comes about - how efficient he gets with it.
Enthymesis
Leviathan
Gadir
Alexander
The Displaced
Lake Scenery with Pocahontas
Cosmas
Tina
Goethe
Republica Intelligentsia