Nominal Cases - Thomas Cotsonas

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Résumé :
Fiction. Like his literary antecedents--John Barth and Jorge Luis Borges both haunt these pages--Thomas Cotsonas takes (and offers) great pleasure in the revelation that the central (though often occult) subject of fiction is always inevitably fictiveness itself. But clever and self-aware as these fictions are, they are also fully alive to the cathartic power of narrative, and the potential for a well-drawn character to show us something human, true, and surprising. NOMINAL CASES thrills both mind and heart--a rare delight.--Joel Brouwer...

Biographie:
Thomas Cotsonas was born and raised in Rochester, New York. His first book of fiction, Nominal Cases, won the St. Lawrence Book Award. His work has also appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including Conjunctions, Western Humanities Review, and Puerto del Sol. He teaches creative writing at Rutgers University and lives with his wife in New York City....

Sommaire:
I'm warning you. Get out now if the exhilaration of the Literature of Exhaustion makes you do double-takes of your double-takes. Thomas Cotsonas's fictions are stunning, stone cold doubled-down articulations of artifice in full riot. The case studies of Nominal Cases asks how does the human brain think about its thinking. Asked and answered in spades. The book reflects reflections and is always on the edge of that edge like those fighter jets designed to be supersonically unstable in the sky in order to out-maneuver gravity itself. I warned you. -Michael Martone...