Gabriel Josipovici has published a series of fictions centering around artists, writers, painters, musicians. This is perhaps his most opaque yet compelling work in this group of novels.

Thought-provoking mix of philosophy and fiction, a blur of past and present, fiction and reality. It curiously stimulates, but doesn't truly engage the reader. The stories meant to enduce sleep in one of the characters eventually do that with the reader. ( )

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