Overview
"In this miniature masterpiece, Rbert Glwhom Joshua Cohen has called ""a phenomenon""conducts a noble experiment in uncategorizable prose. One long, unbroken paragraph, blending memoir, fiction, and philosophy,Agnomiatakes the reader on a transcontinental journey from Lower Manhattan to the Little Quarter of Prague, but most of all it takes the reader on a tour of the writer's mind. Meditations on tautology, sexuality, and art culminate in an attentive evocation of a concert given by the composer and saxophonist John Zorn. For readers of Thomas Bernhard, Georges Bataille, and E. M. Cioran,Agnomiais a book to relish."
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Author: Robert Gal ,
David Short
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781628972795
ISBN 10: 1628972793
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 31 January 2019
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Format: Paperback
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Reviews
Gal is a phenomenon unto himself: a purveyor of neurotic philosophy encapsulated in elliptical portents and epifragmentals, the content of which is at all odds with their length. --Joshua Cohen Gal's aphorisms combine incisive question-raising and gently troubling images involving Time, God... and existential self-awareness. --Antioch Review In our millennium, a time of reduction and minimization, the aphorism has rightly returned. Its master is Robert Gal. --The Forward The Czech Cioran . . . --Andrei Codrescu
In our millennium, a time of reduction and minimization, the aphorism has rightly returned. Its master is R bert G l. --The Forward The Czech Cioran . . . --Andrei Codrescu G l is a phenomenon unto himself: a purveyor of neurotic philosophy encapsulated in elliptical portents and epifragmentals, the content of which is at all odds with their length. --Joshua Cohen G l's aphorisms combine incisive question-raising and gently troubling images involving Time, God... and existential self-awareness. --Antioch Review
Author Information
Rbert Gl 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. David Short taught Czech and Slovak at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, from 1973 to 2011. In addition to academic books in the fields of art, literature, linguistics, and semantics, he has translated many works by modern Czech authors, above all, Bohumil Hrabal. In 2018 he received the Ji Theiner Award, which recognizes those who significantly help spread and promote Czech literature abroad.
