Fiction. Gad Holander's WALSERIAN WALTZES is a sequence of meditations on madness, writing, death, and identity. Focusing on a character split between the first-person singular pronoun and his own name -- a character who may or may not be dead and may or may not be insane, a character whose goal is to become a 'self-made failure' -- Hollander skillfully leads us to contemplate the paradoxical trajectories of language, the subjective and objective worlds it seems to create and destroy. Anyone looking for fiction that combines the compressed and elusive qualities of poetry with the abstract resonance of philosophy will find WALSERIAN WALTZES a richly satisfying experience -- Stephen-Paul Martin.
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"Anyone looking for fiction that combines the compressed and elusive qualities of poetry with the abstract resonance of philosophy will find WALSERIAN WALTZES a richly satisfying experience" -- Stephen-Paul Martin
Gad Hollander has the mind of a philosopher, the heart of an artist, the language of a poetand the literary soul of a modern-day Kafka. Walserian Waltzes takes us on an unforgettable tour through the devastated landscape of a ruined mind. The access to Perception is through a revolving door. -- First Intensity Magazine
Gad Hollander's Walserian Waltzes is a sequence of Meditations on madness, death, writing and identity. Focusing on a character split between the first-person singular pronoun and his own namea character who may or may not be dead and may or may not be insane, a character whose goal is to become a "self-made failureHollander skillfully leads us to contemplate the paradoxical trajectories of language, the subjective and objective worlds it seems to create and destroy. Anyone looking for fiction that combines the compressed and elusive qualities if poetry with the abstract resonance of philosophy will find Walserian Wlatzes a richly satisfying experience. -- Stephen-Paul Martin, author of Not Quite Fiction, and The Gothic Twilight
In Hollander's hands language in an x-ray of an x-ray of an x-rayyet never abolishes the actual body. Thus Walserian Waltzes is writing about writing that never turns bloodless but instead pulses with the interrogation of our own mortality. As E.M. Cioran once wrote:To suddenly realize you have a brainand not lose your mind over it! It is to precisely this zone of mingled amazement and horror that Hollander transports his reader, and with as much or more mad consistency than any other contemporary writer I can think of. -- Leonard Schwartz, author of Gnostic Blessing and co-editor of An Anthology of New (American) Poets
Gad Hollander has the mind of a philosopher, the heart of an artist, the language of a poetand the literary soul of a modern-day Kafka. Walserian Waltzes takes us on an unforgettable tour through the devastated landscape of a ruined mind. The access to Perception is through a revolving door. -- First Intensity Magazine
Gad Hollander's Walserian Waltzes is a sequence of Meditations on madness, death, writing and identity. Focusing on a character split between the first-person singular pronoun and his own namea character who may or may not be dead and may or may not be insane, a character whose goal is to become a "self-made failureHollander skillfully leads us to contemplate the paradoxical trajectories of language, the subjective and objective worlds it seems to create and destroy. Anyone looking for fiction that combines the compressed and elusive qualities if poetry with the abstract resonance of philosophy will find Walserian Wlatzes a richly satisfying experience. -- Stephen-Paul Martin, author of Not Quite Fiction, and The Gothic Twilight
In Hollander's hands language in an x-ray of an x-ray of an x-rayyet never abolishes the actual body. Thus Walserian Waltzes is writing about writing that never turns bloodless but instead pulses with the interrogation of our own mortality. As E.M. Cioran once wrote:To suddenly realize you have a brainand not lose your mind over it! It is to precisely this zone of mingled amazement and horror that Hollander transports his reader, and with as much or more mad consistency than any other contemporary writer I can think of. -- Leonard Schwartz, author of Gnostic Blessing and co-editor of An Anthology of New (American) Poets
About the Author
Gad Hollander is the author of six other books of poetry and innovative prose. He is also a director of films and videos including Diary of a Sane Man; Euripides' Movies; and Background Music. He lives in London.
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