A Contrived World Visual ArtsSet in San Francisco, A Contrived World recounts the authors visit to the mythic Californian city. While the novel is based in this real experi ence, the narrators imaginative reflections cause the narrative to balloon outward into the realms of fiction and fantasy. Each chance encounter provides an opportunity to unfurl a fictional world that simultaneously complements and compromises the real world. In this mirthful anti novel, the ambiguous fusion
with neither sentiment nor intelligence
he currently lives in Tokyo with his wife
ISBN: 9781564787026
“(T)he talent has fully realised itself
and went on to pursue a doctorate in English at Brown University
is concerned with a day in the life of a stagnant
” (Gerard de Cortanze)
terrifying worlds—worlds riven by an absolutely just yet absolutely shattered dream of revolution
and researches the cultural history of Russia and the Czech Republic
seems in a state of permanent metamorphosis
occupying Dodge’s apartment
he must know all that has passed