A stunning debut collection of short stories. Taking as his raw materials the treatment of the fantastic found in Borges and Kis, the misanthropic musings of Gombrowicz and Bernhard, and a literary understanding of philosophy, Gauger's stories are formally challenging, yet evasive of post-structuralist cliches. They often deal with the chaotic fragmentation of the individual, who is mindful of both society and literature, while exploring the blank spaces implicit somewhere behind the narrative.
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Call it the Eternal Return of fiction, and Nietzsche might not have disagreed. -- New York Press
Gauger is an uncompromising author willing to raise some big questions no one has asked in a long time. -- Andrew Ervin
Gauger writes an off-centre, twisting narrative, sparkled with elaborate prose ... delicious descriptives ... Unsettling. -- The Peak, Vancouver
The results, at their best, are engaging, funny and thought-provoking ... Gauger delights in subverting expectations. -- The Globe and Mail
[S]everal of the stories are really quite good (and unforgettable for all the right reasons). -- Tim Davis, NewPages.com
Gauger is an uncompromising author willing to raise some big questions no one has asked in a long time. -- Andrew Ervin
Gauger writes an off-centre, twisting narrative, sparkled with elaborate prose ... delicious descriptives ... Unsettling. -- The Peak, Vancouver
The results, at their best, are engaging, funny and thought-provoking ... Gauger delights in subverting expectations. -- The Globe and Mail
[S]everal of the stories are really quite good (and unforgettable for all the right reasons). -- Tim Davis, NewPages.com
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