"The names of the inhabitants of Johan de Wit's wordscapes all split in two and their self-life is never guaranteed: they're here on one page and gone the next, brief heroes baffled by the warps and swerves of the sentences which conjured them up while heading elsewhere." (Alan Halsey) Johan de Wit is a truly avant-garde figure, a genuine explorer of language continents others don't even know about. This "novel" explores the lives of 60 characters - or are they all the same person?