In this miniature masterpiece, R bert G l--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.
Cioran, Agnomia is a book to relish.
Dalkey Archive Press Agnomia, paperback/robert gal
