On Wing - Gál, Róbert

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Résumé :
The volume brings together the great Slovak philosopher/poet Raobert Gaal's two works of fiction, Agnomia and On Wing, though they are by no means ordinary novellas. On Wing is atomized into hundreds of tiny aphorisms, dreams, anecdotes, and inquiries, while Agnomia is a long block of seemingly chaotic prose taking its structural cues from--and culminating in the description of a concert by--the renowned saxophonist and composer John Zorn.

Biographie:

Róbert Gál is a Slovak-born writer and editor living in Prague. He is the author of several books of aphorisms, fiction, and philosophical fragments available in English translation, including Tractatus (Schism Press, 2022), Naked Thoughts (Black Sun Lit, 2019), Agnomia (Dalkey Archive Press, 2018), On Wing (Dalkey Archive Press, 2015), and Signs & Symptoms (Twisted Spoon Press, 2003). Find more on www.robert-gal.com.

Mark Kanak is an author, translator and radioplay artist living in Berlin. He writes in German and English, has written 6 books and published countless translations (Serner, Schwab, Brinkmann and many others), and is the author of Lie Detector (Ritter Verlag, 2023) and Tractatus illogico-insanus (Ritter Verlag, 2018). His most recent radioplays include Tollhaus and Atmung, both Belleville Verlag (Munich) and both performed by Blixa Bargeld.