Basic Forms - Fred Skolnik

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Résumé :
The three shots rang out very clearly in Edward Zupan's head as he crossed Times Square….
So begins this extraordinary novel by the author of The Other Shore and Death, which sets out to explore the mind of a protagonist who may or may not commit a mass shooting. While the act is viewed through the prism of possibility, utilizing parallel sets of characters, images and motifs, and in technique owes something to both Alain Robbe-Grillet and the music of Philip Glass, the novel was essentially inspired by Charles Whitman, the Texas sniper of the 1960s and represents an attempt to elucidate the existential meaning of such an act at its deepest level.

Biographie:
Fred Skolnik was born in New York City and has lived in Israel since 1963. He is the author of The Other Shore (Aqueous Books, 2011), an epic novel depicting Israeli society at a critical juncture in its recent history, and Death, a surreal tale of flight and destiny (Spuyten Duyvil, 2015). A selection of his short fiction called Americans and Other Stories was published in 2017 by Fomite Press. Skolnik is also the editor in chief of the 22-volume second edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica, winner of the 2007 Dartmouth Medal. Under his Fred Russell pen name, he also published two novels in 2014: Rafi's World (Fomite) and The Links in the Chain (CCLaP).