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Agnomia : Slovakian Literature - Rbert Gl

Agnomia

By: Rbert Gl, David Short (Translator)

Paperback | 14 December 2018

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In this miniature masterpiece, Róbert Gál―whom Joshua Cohen has called “a phenomenon”―conducts a noble experiment in uncategorizable prose. One long, unbroken paragraph, blending memoir, fiction, and philosophy, Agnomia takes the reader on a transcontinental journey from Lower Manhattan to the Little Quarter of Prague, but most of all it takes the reader on a tour of the writer’s mind. Meditations on tautology, sexuality, and art culminate in an attentive evocation of a concert given by the composer and saxophonist John Zorn. For readers of Thomas Bernhard, Georges Bataille, and E. M. Cioran, Agnomia is a book to relish.
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"[F]ull of words, to be sure. Words alone. What did you expect? Here we seek a home, here we build the house of language. Here we seek faith, and build a temple. The high mixes with the low, banality with philosophy, a generational account with self-centeredness, the micro-story with neologisms. The themes blend together, but they don't concern the joyous game of imagination or automatic writing. Reality is omnipresent and bleeds into an amalgamate of the seen, the heard, and the anticipated. As with all authors of marginal literature, Róoacute;bert Gáaacute;l, too, writes one book perpetually." -Ladislav Šerýyacute;

Agnomia knows all journeys end where they begin, and by beginning evoke a return (and the lure of such redundancy), and that what it is that comes back is a kind of music, or madness, of being something someplace other than every self-recrimination you can think of, and the feeling then of the sad impossibility of a sublime inertia for things like us, trapped in our freedoms, moving all the time as a way of staying still.” —Gary J. Shipley

“Always traversing the cutting edge, Róbert Gál is one of the most fascinating, provocative, and inspiring poets writing today.” —John Zorn

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