Status Updates From The Bath Fugues

Yup. Still excellent. Incredibly tightly structured

...in the end stories are fanatical lighthouses without light and appear only during the day, possibly in fair weather, but they are nothing to cling to in the deepest of nights, for we only have ourselves, the controls are in our hands alone, as we glide towards danger, suicide or resurrection. Snake-charmers do not have the well-being of cobras in mind. I have never tried to tell stories.

Reading the transcript of this interview with the author should be sufficient to get some of you (you know who you are!) interested in his work: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/...

This is really rather excellent.

"Indeed, he belonged to a secret society of bicyclists….Thomas Hardy, Mircea Eliade, Bohumil Hrabal, Eugene Ionesco, Eddy Merckx, Slobodan Milosevic, Gavrilo Princip, Jozef Skvorecki, Tzvetan Todorov, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Duchamp, George Dwyer and the philosopher De Selby. "
That list from p69 should tell you everything you need to know about this book and who it will appeal to. Especially the last name.

Fans of Alexander Theroux, Gaddis and all the rest need to get on the Castro-train. This is my third of his and all have been excellent. This little review should be sufficient to catch your attention for this one: https://www.perilousadventures.net/10...

The sea had turned metallic then, and slabs of swell formed into colours, a marbled collation of seaweed and debris as the steamer backed up and from the deep rose a phallic gush, a rush of foam, a flush of catacombs, blind dream of ancient bone, a resurrection!

This is sensational!