In this imaginative hybrid of fiction? poetry? autobiography? we are brought into the mind of Sebastian, who narrates a continual stream of thoughts, dreams, regrets, and memories.
As the book progresses, a larger picture comes into focus.
It's a stunning cumulative effect-strange, funny, and moving.
In Not I , we miraculously get it all: a gleeful dismantling of literary expectation, a story of a life, and a dive into the mind of an artist in the world.