To readers familiar with Lars Gustafsson's work, the playful philosophizing of Sigismund will come as no surprise, as he leisurely pulls together seeming fragments into a narrative of 1970's Berlin that at once looks back to Homer, Dante, and the Faust legend and ahead to space warfare and intergalactic travel.
To readers familiar with Lars Gustafsson's work, the playful philosophizing of Sigismund will come as no surprise, as he leisurely pulls together seem...
Judge Caldwell, a comfortably married man for 30 years, has an affair; his stepdaughter comes home after being denied tenure at Harvard; and Judge Caldwell learns of the death of a Dutch philosopher-semanticist. What does all this have to do with a dog? Thereby hangs the tale.
Judge Caldwell, a comfortably married man for 30 years, has an affair; his stepdaughter comes home after being denied tenure at Harvard; and Judge Cal...
